Roman sarcophagus with #Selene, the #Moon, in the top left corner with her team of horses and Helios in his quadriga on the right. The scene shows the creation of man by #Prometheus.
🏛️ Roman sarcophagus found in a mausoleum near the ancient Puteoli (Pozzuoli, Naples). Dated to the 4th century CE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples.
@phistorians@antiquidons@mythology I find the explanation of Hermes' role especially fascinating: asking his dad (and his wife) for money to pay Hades so humans can be alive. Do we owe our lives to Hermes hustling for us? 🤔
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.
Engraved Stone Ball (Magic Sphere?) with #Helios and magical symbols. Discovered in 1866 at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, near the remains of the Theatre of Dionysos.
🎨 Marble sphere, dated 2nd-3rd centuries CE. Today in the #Athens Acropolis Museum.
@AimeeMaroux@antiquidons@mythology votive element (stone appears having being shaped naturall, river found maybe, and surely resembles the sun shapel) most likely, magical spheres of that type would be sth new from this region & period (especially as a solid).
For scrying, bowls of (herbal infused) water or smoke was the more common thing.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Baby #Dionysos sitting on the lap of his big brother #Hermes is given to the #satyr Tropheus and the nymphs of Nysa. Also in the scene are Anatrophe (“upbringing”), as well as Ambrosia and Nektar (food and drink of the gods).
@DF_Media I love him too, he is the one who ensnared me with his vines and got me back into mythology 🥰
The party sounds like the Bacchic Lord chose to possess you that evening 🍷
@edsuom@inquisitormundi@mythology@antiquidons@histodons
For one, ancient Greek art usally depicts the penis to show you that a figure is male. This is especially important for gender-fluid gods like Dionysos. But you also find it in theatre: a male character has a leather phallus.
There are depictions of fully naked women, most promintently the goddess Aphrodite but mortal women as well.
Overall, there were more places where it was acceptable for men to be naked, like the palaistra.
Join our patrons for a deep dive into the classic reception tour de force that is Disney’s Hercules (1997). We sit down with Professor Alistair Blanchard whose research on this heroic figure is second to none.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [#Hermes] was responsible for #profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse." #Suidas, Byzantine Greek lexicon, 10th century CE
🏛️ Hermes, Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis, Greece
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is work.
Four deities spring to my mind when I think of work: #Demeter, #Hermes, #Hephaistos, and #Athena. #AncientGreece was an agricultural society with 80% of the population being involved in this line of work. In Greek mythology, it was Demeter who invented agriculture but according to Diodorus Siculus she burnt all the grain when her daughter #Persephone vanished out of grief and anger.
@ElysiaMacht It does look like a modern wheelchair, doesn't it?
It is a chariot, probably too clunky in real life to be used as a wheelchair, but if Hephaistos invented the wheelchair based on these kinds of chariots it would make total sense!
#Eros adjusts the kottabos stand, a popular game at #ancientGreek symosia. #Dionysos reclines on a couch, his lower body richly draped, holding a thyrsos in his left hand and a wine cup in his right.
🏛️ Red-figure vase painting on a bell krater, dated 395–375 BCE.