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18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"Indeed they would have chopt up little Bakkhos [#Dionysos] a baby still piecemeal in the distracted flood of their vagabond madness, had not #Hermes come on wing and stolen Bakkhos again with a robber's untracked footsteps."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9.28

🏛 Hermes and baby Dionysos, detail of a red-figure krater. Today in the Musée du Louvre.

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

"He was red with blood as if he were slaying living men, and he stood in his chariot. Beside him stood Deimos and Phobos, eager to plunge amidst the fighting men."
Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 191

🏛️ #Ares among Greeks and #Amazons, detail of an Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum Jatta, Ruvo di Puglia.

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #mythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"May you [#Luna-Selene the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417 ff

🏛️ #Selene in her chariot drawn by bulls across the sky, about 1st CE, British Museum

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #Selene

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

The #WinterSolstice is almost upon us and the Roman festival of #Saturnalia starts today! 🥳

"Through them all [the constellations of the zodiac] Helios passes in yearly course, as he drives his mighty furrow, and now to one, now to another he draws near, now as he rises and anon as he sets."
Aratus, Phaenomena 748

🏛 #Helios statuette, Antalya Archaeological Museum

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology
@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos! 🍇

"#Dionysos was named twice-born by the ancients, counting it as a single and first birth when the plant is set in the ground and begins to grow, and as a second birth when it becomes laden with fruit and ripens its grape-clusters. The god is thus considered to have been born once from the earth and again from the vine."
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 3.62.5

🏛️ Roman glass cameo, 1st century CE

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"About him bold Eros beat his wings, and Kythereia [Aphrodite] led, before Lyaios [Dionysos] the bridegroom. For Theseus had just sailed away, and left without pity the banished maiden [Ariadne] asleep on the shore."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 47.265

🏛️ #Aphrodite, #Ariadne, and #Dionysos, 420-410 BCE. Martin-von-Wagner-Museum, Würzburg.

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"That gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses 3

🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos, detail, Roman sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos, 190 CE, Walters Art Museum
📸 Lucas Livingston

@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt #Zeus

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"Zeus taking up the child [Dionysos], handed it over to #Hermes, and ordered him to take it to the cave in Nysa, which lay between Phoenicia and Neilos [the River Nile]."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.2.3

🏛 Birth of #Dionysos from #Zeus' thigh, Roman work of the 2nd century after a Greek original of the late 4th century BCE, Vatican Museum

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

The villa of the Emperor #Hadrian at Tivoli, called Villa Adriana, is even in ruined condition one of the most spectacular Roman gardens. This statue of a young warrior identified as #Ares used to overlook a lake as one of six statues in a single colonnade.

🏛️ Ares Canopus, Villa Adriana, Tivoli

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #Mars

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Swelled like young Mene's [Selene's] arching chariot-rail when high over Okeanos' fathomless-flowing stream she rises, with the space half filled with light betwixt her bowing horns."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1.147

🏛️ Red-figure vase painting of #Selene.

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"As he rides his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless gods. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him."
Homeric Hymn 31 to #Helios

🏛 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, #Hamburg

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology
@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Dionysos Liknites, “Dionysos of the Winnowing-fan” is an epithet of #Dionysos because at birth he is said to have been laid on a winnowing-fan. Placing newborn children in winnowing-fans is “an omen of wealth and fruitfulness”.
Hermes, too, was "laid in swaddling-bands on the winnowing fan".

🏛️ Terracotta relief of a dancing #Maenad and #Satyr with baby #Bacchus (Dionysos)

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

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

@mythology @antiquidons @archaeodons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to antiquidons

Not quite as impressive as the multi-phallic chariot of the @phistorians, this woman is getting by with just one phallus 😄

#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.

🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to lgbtqia

My audience is probably too old to be the main target demographic of #JamesSomerton's videos but it's still worth checking out #hbomberguy's video detailing his shameless plagiarism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ&t=12399s

and also @ToddInTheShadows' video on made-up bullshit in his essays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_LW1PkmnY

My personal thoughts in the toot below.

@lgbtqia
#youtube #plagiarism #LGBTQ #LGBT #LGBTQIA

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

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

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

Intaglio from Roman Caerleon made of red jasper, depicting the Roman war god #Mars.
Mars was usually shown as a warrior carrying shield, spear, and sword whilst wearing armour and a created helmet.

🏛️ Ares-Mars intaglio, Wales Museum

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #mythology #ancientRome #RomanBritain #GreekRomanArt #Ares

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

Sculpture of #Selene carved from a cylinder of coarse-grained marble. It shows no traces of reworking. The right hand, which may have held a torch, is missing. She probably adorned a sanctuary, perhaps a domestic one.
Full description in the alt text.

🏛️ Statue of Selene, white marble (Proconnesio), dated 250-300 CE

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #Luna

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"When he [Helios] has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvellously drives them down again through heaven to Okeanos."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.397

🏛 Helios, silver-gilt disc. Foundin Elis, Greece, and dated 5th to 2nd century BCE. Today in the British Museum.

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Sol #Helios
@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"Seilenos (#Silenus), who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of #Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛️ Baby Dionysos in the arms of #Silenos, his foster father. From #Myrina, dated 2nd century CE. Today in the Musée du Louvre.

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"I will sing of stately #Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set #Cyprus. [...] Hail, sweetly-winning, coy-eyed goddess!"
Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite

🏛️ Aphrodite #mosaic from East Bouleuterion, 2nd century CE, Aphrodisias

@mythology @antiquidons @archaeodons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt #MosaicMonday

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"#Nike, giver of sweetness, to you the father, son of Ouranos (Uranus), on his high bench has granted glorious honour, so that in gold-rich Olympos you stand beside #Zeus and judge the outcome of prowess for immortals and mortals: be gracious, daughter of thick-tressed, right-judging Styx."
Bacchylides, Fr. 11

🏛️ Red-figure vase painting of #Hermes, Zeus, Nike, and #Hera.

@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.

🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #EtruscanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

"Where the milky region is set in a tranquil heaven, lay kindly Venus in her bower, whence night had but lately fled, faint in the rough embrace of her Getic lord [Mars]. About the posts and pillows of her couch swarm a troop of tender Amores."
Statius, Silvae 1.2.51

🏛️ #Ares and #Aphrodite, #fresco, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #Pompeii

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

"Hephaistos watched himself in the great silver mirror. The magic had worked, well, like a charm. It wasn't his crude, bearded face staring back at him. Instead, he saw smooth cheeks, long, dark lashes and flowing golden hair."

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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1359211

#Amazon
http://getbook.at/AresHephaistos

@smutstodon @mythology
#indie #erotica #ebooks #genderswap #BodySwap #FediGiftshop

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

"Hephaistos watched himself in the great silver mirror. The magic had worked, well, like a charm. It wasn't his crude, bearded face staring back at him. Instead, he saw smooth cheeks, long, dark lashes and flowing golden hair."

#Amazon
http://getbook.at/AresHephaistos

#Smashwords
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1359211

@smutstodon @mythology
#indie #erotica #ebooks #genderswap #BodySwap #FediGiftshop

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"As wind rises, golden Phoebe [Luna-Selene] ever blushes. But if at her fourth rising--for that is our surest guide--she pass through the sky clear and with undimmed horns, then all that day, and the days born of it to the month's end, shall be free from rain and wind."
Virgil, Georgics 1. 426

🏛️ Roman oil lamp decorated with the goddess #Luna

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #Selene

StrassenKatze, 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

I am feeling called out by the top half of this @actuallyautistic

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"Sol meanwhile, dishevelled, his bright sheen subdued as in the gloom of an eclipse, loathing himself, loathing the light, the day, gives way to grief, and, grief rising to rage, denies his duty to the world."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.397

🏛 Phaethon Sarcophagus, detail of Helios, 3rd century CE, #Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Sol #Helios
@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

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?

https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-artemis-and-the-huntress/

@smutstodon @mythology @lgbtqbookstodon @lesfic

#wlw #LesFic #Sapphic #SapphicSunday #SapphicReads #indie #indieAuthor #erotica #mythology #GreekMythology #WritersOfMastodon

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to smutstodon

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18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

TildeGartenzaun, 6 months ago to random

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bsky

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to antiquidons

Not just men can party - not even in #ancientGreece - as this female reveller proves. She is playing the popular party game kottabos, flinging drops of wine sediment at a target not seen here.

🎨 Red-figure kylix attributed to Onesimos ca 490 BCE: woman reveller playing kottabos

#FannyFriday @antiquidons @phistorians #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

This statuette is a variant of the #Aphrodite Anadyomene type. Her eyes are inlaid with glass paste. The pose may have been inspired by a famous painting of Aphrodite Anadyomene by Apelles, court painter of Alexander the Great.

🏛️ Aphrodite bronze, 2nd-1st century BCE. Today in the MET, New York.

@mythology @antiquidons @archaeodons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FannyFriday

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"A Phrygian, and born of our blood, was he [#Ganymedes] who now is with the gods, and mingles water with the nectar for their drinking."
Ovid, Heroides 16.199, Paris to Helen

🏛️ Ganymedes and #Zeus as an #eagle, Roman #mosaic, 2nd century CE

@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 6 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"Now when the dead have come to the place where each is led by his daimon i.e. [#Hermes], first they are judged and sentenced, as they have lived well and piously, or not. And those who are found to have lived neither well nor ill, go to the Acheron."
#Plato, Phaedros 112e

🏛 Hermes guides the soul of a dead woman to #Charon, attic lecythus, dated 450 BCE

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

"Oh for a man mighty with the spear to deliver our house, an #Ares, brandishing in the fight the springing Scythian bow and wielding his hilted sword in close combat."
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 160

🏛️ Ares-Mars statuette, Roman Empire, photo by Carole Madge @followinghadrian

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology
#DayOfAres #mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

Selene driving the bull-drawn biga, raising a lit torch that illuminates the sleeping #Endymion.

🏛️ #Selene and Endymion, Roman #mosaic, dated circa 3th century CE.

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #Luna #MosaicMonday #Eros

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

One of the oldest antiquities found at Aï Khanum, this spectacular disk depicts #Kybele and winged #Nike on a chariot drawn by two lions through a mountainous landscape with a bust of the sun god Helios in the sky.

🏛 Ceremonial Plaque depicting Kybele, Nike, and Helios. Early 3rd century BCE. Today in the National Museum of #Afghanistan, Kabul.

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Sol #Helios
@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Dionysos, riding his pet #panther.

🏛️ #Dionysos seated on a panther, Marble Sculpture, 1st–3rd century CE. Today on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 169.

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #Caturday #mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

#Hera, #Aphrodite, and #Athena present themselves for the Trojan prince Paris to judge their beauty. Aphrodite is disrobing for him to show him the goods. #Hermes had guided them and apparently decided to stick around to sneak a peek.

🏛️ "The Judgment of Paris," 45-79 CE, Roman fresco

@mythology @antiquidons @archaeodons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Wall decoration of #Ganymedes seemingly just getting off #Zeus' lap...

🏛️ #Neoclassical relief, Hamburger Kunsthalle

@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfZeus #ancMedReception #Ganymede

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

"#Aphrodisiacs for the penis: these stretch the penis and lead to sexual union: pine-cones, pepper, parsley, fillings deer’s penis, turpentine, of each the same amount; mix with honey, and give to drink in wine." Pseudo-Galen, Euporista 2.2

#PhallusThursday #ancientMedicine @antiquidons @LJTrafford @phistorians

18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"[Zeus] commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord over all birds of prey and grim-eyed lions, and boars with gleaming tusks, and over [herder's] dogs and all the herds and flocks that the wide earth nourishes, and over all sheep."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 560

🏛 Hermes-Mercurius, marble relief made by Artus Quellinus in the 17th century CE.

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #ancMedReception #neoclassical #Mercurius