It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Happy #SaintNicholasDay. What if Hermes brought the gifts? Would he gives us what we want, what we need, or what the mischievous god finds the most funny?
🏛 #Hermes gives to mankind from D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
A maiden huntress stumbles upon #Artemis bathing. Will this encounter end differently than for Aktaion, who was torn to pieces by his own hunting dogs?
Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
King Minos of #Crete was married to Pasiphaë, daughter of #Helios, the Sun. After he had been unfaithful several times, she cursed #Minos so he couldn't have sex with mortal women because he would ejaculate snakes, scorpions, and millipedes. As a goddess, #Pasiphaë herself remained unbothered when she slept with her husband. The Athenian girl Prokris overcame the spell by essentially inventing the #condom in the form of a goat's bladder.
The theme is dreams. I have written a story in which #Persephone approaches #Lethe, the #nymph of the #underworld river that makes shades forget their former life, and asks her to help her forget about her life on the surface.
The theme is dreams. I have written a story in which Persephone approaches Lethe, the nymph of the underworld river that makes shades forget their former life, and asks her to help her forget about her life on the surface.
Classicists, mythology fans, and others, I've been trying to read and/or round out my collection. I really prefer bilingual works, not simply translations. Is Loeb consistently my best bet? Are there other recommendations? Should I decide work by work?
Current work under consideration is Hesiod's Theogony, but the questions stand more generally, too.
[Feel free to tag in a Classics group if there is one]
#Ares gave him a push that sent him into the dirt of the agora. "On all fours, dog." #Sisyphos got up on his hands and knees as Ares had commanded.
"Good boy," Ares said with a cruel grin. "We are going to pay Lord #Thanatos a visit. Down in the underworld where you belong."
My #gay erotic story about Hermes and Dionysos is finally published wide! Get the tender (non-romantic) love story between the two gods at your favourite online retailer:
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mosaic of #Hermes-Mercurius, easily recognisable by the wings on his head, representing the planet Mercury or the fourth day of the ancient Roman week, diēs Mercuriī (Wednesday).
🏛 #Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, #Spain
I wrote a "fix it fic" for Ikaros and Phaëthon back in December 2020, when we all could use something uplifting instead of the well-known tragedy. In the story, Ikaros takes flight on the same day as Phaëthon gets to drive his father's sunwagon. How can the two escape their fates?
I was a big Greek mythology buff at school. My dad had bought an encyclopedia in the late '70s, and I was learning everything about it via it. Naturally, my favorite character was goddess Athena. All about knowledge & wisdom. The most kind-hearted of the gods too. So I had to paint a portrait in her honor.
I was browsing through old Greek mythology images and made a meme. I didn't read the background for this guy so I may have missed some context or misconstrued what's going on here, idk, whatev.
Aimee, I have a question for as you are clearly a subject matter expert here. I write scifi, but pull in historical elements or themes where I can.
My question is this: were the everyday Greeks/Romans of ancient times more accustomed to nudity or open lascivious activity than in modern times or was this simply what artists chose to depict?
@antiquidons#Astronomy and calendars are the domain of #Hermes. His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that #Aphrodite first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet #Mercury is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.