Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Lord [#Dionysos], with whom #Eros the subduer and the blue-eyed Nymphai, and radiant #Aphrodite play, as you haunt the lofty mountain peaks."
Anacreon, Fragment 357
🏛️ Relief detail of Aphrodite and Dionysos (and baby Eros), Sarkophag 7b, Antalya Museum
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
A long, elegant gold hairpin adorned with #Aphrodite and her son #Eros. Eros offers support to his mum who appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-shaped arm bracelets she already wears.
🏛️ Gold Aphrodite Hairpin, 1st century BCE, Greece
It's #FannyFriday, the day I invite everyone to post #vulva art along with me.
Here, #Eros is helping two women remove their pubic hair to be extra sexy. Yes, this goes back to antiquity. Eros and the woman behind him are using an oil lamp to burn off the hair. The bristly pubes growing back earned the vulva the nickname "piggy" in acient Greek.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
#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.