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[[Apollonius of Rhodes]] (4.57) tells how Selene loved a mortal, the handsome male prostitute —or, in the version Pausanias knew, a king— of [[Elis]], or otherwise called a hunter or shepherd, named [[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]], from [[Asia Minor]]. He was so beautiful that Selene asked Zeus to grant him eternal life so he would never leave her: her asking permission of Zeus reveals itself as an Olympian transformation of an older myth: [[Cicero]] (''Tusculanae Disputationes'') recognized that the moon goddess had acted autonomously. Alternatively, Endymion made the decision to live forever in sleep. Every night, Selene slipped down behind [[Mount Latmus]] near [[Miletus]]. ([[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] v.1.5). Selene had fifty daughters from Endymion, including [[Naxos (mythology)|Naxos]]. The sanctuary of Endymion at [[Heracleia]] on the southern slope of Latmus is a horseshoe-shaped chamber with an entrance hall and pillared forecourt.

Though the story of Endymion is the best-known one today, the Homeric hymn to Selene (xxxii) tells that Selene also bore [[Zeus]] a daughter, [[Pandia]], the "utterly shining" full moon. According to some sources, the [[Nemean Lion]] was her offspring as well. She also had an affair with [[Pan]], who seduced her by wrapping himself in a sheepskin<ref name=("Kerenyi"/> 1959) and gave her the yoke of white oxen that drew the chariot in which she is represented in sculptured reliefs, with her windblown veil above her head like the arching canopy of sky. In the Homeric hymn, her chariot is drawn by long-maned horses.