 Quintus Smyrnaeus makes Helios and Selene (the Sun and Moon) the parents of the Horae, goddesses of the seasons.Smyrnaeus describes them as the four handmaidens of Hera, but in most accounts their number is three, and their parents are Zeus and Themis.According to Virgil, Selene also had a tryst with the great god Pan, who seduced her with a "snowy bribe of wool".