Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
Relief of #Aphrodite crowned with a polos, her right arm resting on a column. With her left hand she is giving a dove to her son #Eros who makes a grab for the flying bird.
🏛️ Greek golden finger ring, 3-4th century CE. Today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, #Vienna.
🪷 #PhallusThursday This photo is banned from Meta Threads, Facebook and Instagram for frontal nudity! Marble copy of Capitoline #Antinous 60 cm high. Students' work, 19th Century. Private collection, Brussels. No nude images on Meta Threads! 🪷
I have a drawing dry spell I need to break! I've never done anything like this before I don't think because it's counter to my process but I think it would be fun:
I'll draw the first ten subject matter requests on this post (either in graphite or dip pen) and pick someone out of a hat to receive the original drawing of their request for free.
Anyone else who suggests something will be tagged in the posted photo of the drawing, and I can email you the higher res photo as well if you'd like to use it for anything.
And if you just want to suggest subject matter for suggestion's sake, that's welcome as well!
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Meet this #silver figurine of Hermes-Mercurius, holding his iconic kerykeion or caduceus staff in his left. With the two snakes winding around it, it has been mistaken for the Rod of Asklepios, the symbol of medicine, when in truth the caduceus is the symbol of commerce.
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
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.
The artisans under the patronage of #Hephaistos and #Athena built their workshops nearby. Homer writes in the #Odyssey:
"As when a man adds gold to a silver vessel, a craftsman taught by Hephaistos and Athene to master his art through all its range, so that everything that he makes is beautiful."
Hephaistos and Athena seem to share most of the crafts. Only metalurgy and smithing seems to be Hephaistos' domain alone, just as weaving is the sole sphere of Athena.
Plato writes the two of them also share a workshop where they practise their favourite arts:
"He [Prometheus] entered by stealth into the common workshop of Athene and Hephaistos, in which they used to practise their favourite arts, and carried off Hephaistos' art of working by fire, and also the art of Athene, and gave them to man."
Plato, Protagoras 320c - 222a
May Athene Erganê, Athena the Worker, and Hephaistos Polytekhnês, Hephaestus of Many Crafts bless your endeavours today. 💪
May Demeter Ploutodoteira give you wealth. And if you're like me, making a living with words, ask Hermes Eriounês, the bringer of good fortune and ready helper, because Hermes is also the god of language and writing.
If you want to help Hermes out, support me on Patreon so I can make a living from my writing and quit bothering the poor god 😉