"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947
🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford
5th c. BCE small Greek terracotta naiskos (shrine) with the god Hermes and two goddesses or 'nymphs'. They all have large shield fibulae pinning their clothes at their shoulders. Clear remains of the original pigments. #polychromy#archaeology
From Tanagra (Boeotia, Greece)
Altes Museum, Berlin