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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

Teri_Kanefield, 7 months ago to random

Answering this question: https://law-and-politics.online/@[email protected]/111429189190084052

Nobody really knows what is meant by "officer of the government." It might include the president. It might not. A president occupies a unique position under the Constitution.

Basically what the judge did was punt the issue to the appellate court.

The judge found that Trump incited an insurrection (a finding of fact) but didn't find that he was an officer of the federal government (a matter of law).

Here's why the distinction matters . . .

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18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to mythology

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

For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.

🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday

liztai, 8 months ago to random

When you rush to Bible Study Fellowship class in your towel cos you are late and then you didn't realise the camera is on and everyone saw you 🙃

AimeeMaroux, 8 months ago to mythology

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

A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘

🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology
#DayOfAres #neoclassical #mythology #Ares #Aphrodite #Hephaistos #Hephaestus

[Opinion] Hakeem Jeffries: A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House (www.washingtonpost.com)

In recent days, Democrats have tried to show our colleagues in the Republican majority a way out of the dysfunction and rancor they have allowed to engulf the House. That path to a better place is still there for the taking....

Arotrios, 8 months ago to random

"Fuck it" is the most powerful and subsequently destructive phrase in the English language, allowing one to ignore consequence in favor of pure action, with the tactic acceptance that you've likely released forces far beyond your control.

For a phrase with so much destructive potential, it's interesting to note that the root of the phrase goes back to sex, the act of creation, and even possibly love. Sex is the effort to produce a child, a force which will, whether you like it or not, grow beyond your control.

"Kill it" doesn't have the oomph. Why not, when it essentially speaks to the same destructive dynamic and disregard of consequence?

Because "kill it" invokes death, which is to put to rest. "Fuck it" invokes life, which is to spark chaos.

Chigaze, 8 months ago to bookstodon

Apparently I'm the level of Tolkien nerd who can read an entire book of his rough notes obsessing over minutia. Currently reading "The Nature of Middle-Earth" which includes details like what type of pen the notes were written in.

#Tolkien @bookstodon #books

BigAngBlack, 8 months ago to blackmastodon

#BlackFriday Oct 6, 2023

We in that month. Part 1

@BlackMastodon
@blackmastodon
#BlackMastodon

...to be continued

William Marshall "Blacula" 1972
Wesley Snipes "Blade" 1998
Grace Jones "Vamp" 1986

aaronm, 8 months ago to medievodons

74 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week39.html
Includes a Martyrology, Ramon Llull with diagrams, a very elaborate Fransiscan Antiphonal (well the pictures from it), some Russian pictures of ... something, a book of horse bridal drawings, Sallust, Lucan, and ..... Henry Stevenson, Jr.!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

A page of square neumes on 4 red stafflines starting with a large illuminated initial C. It is from Ross.1195 f.1r
A page of small circular diagrams in red and green ink with one larger diagram at bottom right. It is f.1v from Ott.lat.2347

The Year's Best Science Fiction - 1st annual collection - 1984 - featuring the work of George R.R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Poul Andersen, Greg Bear, and Bruce Sterling (pdfhost.io)

Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe....

MikeDunnAuthor, 9 months ago to bookstadon

Today in Writing History September 25, 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter was born (d. 1999). He is perhaps most remembered today for his amusing children’s poetry and fiction, like “The Giving Tree.” However, he also wrote many songs like "One's on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (which were hits for Loretta Lynn), and "25 Minutes to Go," about a man on Death Row, and "A Boy Named Sue," both made famous by Johnny Cash. He also wrote "The Unicorn," which The Irish Rovers made famous. He also wrote many songs about drugs and sex, like “I Got Stoned and I Missed It,” “Quaaludes Again,” “Masochistic Baby,” and “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.”

https://youtu.be/H53JSXPXPxI

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #fiction #novel #Music #poetry #poem #writer #author #books #play #ShelSilverstein #drugs @bookstadon

azforeman, 9 months ago to poetry

Me reading "Storm in the Dark" by the Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi in Arabic & English. I got sick of translations of Arabic poetry ignoring rhyme & meter. If you want a thing done right, you gotta do it your own self

هذا فيديو أقرأ فيه قصيدة "زوبعة في ظلام" للشاعر التونسي ابو القاسم الشابي بالعربية وبترجمتي الانجليزية. انا سئمت من الترجمات الانجليزية للشعر العربي الحديث التي تُهمِل القافية والوزن. وتبيّن انو اذا بدك اشي ينعمل مظبوط لازم تعمله لحالك.

@poetry

https://youtu.be/KrATBITVKxU

AimeeMaroux, 9 months ago to mythology

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is trees 🌲
Many stories in #GreekMythology have trees in it, some of which I will be telling in this thread.
The most famous tree-related myth must be the transformation of Daphne. Hit with Eros' fiery arrows, #Apollon was burning with desire for the nymph and pursued her when she fled from his advances. Feeling her strength wane, Daphne prayed for help from either her father or Gaia and was turned into the first laurel tree.

@mythology #mythology

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AimeeMaroux, 9 months ago to random

What’s a meme you have saved because it's one of your favourites?

#meme #ancientEgypt #askGame

Virginicus, 9 months ago to mythology

The ancient Romans had another god, similar to Janus, who could listen in two directions. He was usually portrayed as a male figure with an ear on each side of his head, but his cult has been forgotten because the statues looked like just some guy. #mythology #Rome @mythology

aaronm, 9 months ago to medievodons

@medievodons and Art Historians, I need help with a word. Is there a specific term for "those little groups of three dots" one often sees in manuscript illumination? As example in Ott.lat.1562 f.1r. I feel like I've seen them so much they need a specific term, but I can't seem to recall one

azforeman, 10 months ago to linguistics

My readings of Shakespeare's sonnets in Early Modern Pronunciation continue with Sonnet 16, available in full to subscribers. Non-subscribers can hear a brief preview here.

(I read this one with a WAIT-MATE merger)

@linguistics @histodons

https://t.co/ZOqVlNCgRS

AimeeMaroux, 10 months ago to antiquidons

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

"[Zeus] made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia."
Hesiod, Theogony 921

🏛️ #Hera and #Zeus, marble relief from Temple E in #Selinunte, dated ca. 450 BCE. Today in the Museo archeologico regionale di #Palermo.

#DayOfZeus #Mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology @archaeodons

AimeeMaroux, 10 months ago to random

The glossary for August's erotic mythology story is going to be looooong 😳

In the story, #Dionysos and #Ariadne visit #Egypt, invited by the goddess #Hathor, and as I am not as well-versed in Egyptian history, it was tough getting the details right. I always aim to bring the ancient world alive and it is supposed to be a place where young gods like Dionysos and Ariadne seem like children to the ancient deities who ruled over Egypt for centuries if not millenia when the story takes place.

Time Bandits - 1981 - starring Sean Connory, John Cleese, David Rappaport and Shelley Duvall, directed by Terry Gilliam (movie-web.app)

Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughan and David Warner. The film tells the story of a young boy taken on an adventure through time...

juergen_hubert, 10 months ago to germany

Read the tale of the Dread Pirate Störtebeker - Scourge of the German Seas!

#Germany #folktale #folklore #pirate @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/scourge-of-seas-29405870

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Störtebeker Saga". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

mythologymonday, 10 months ago to folklorethursday

Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming #BookLoversDay we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed #books?

Tell us about the #myth and the #book with the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward to all your #book reports! 😚

🎨 Armchair Books, Edinburgh
https://www.armchairbooks.co.uk/

#NationalBookLoversDay @bookstodon #mythology #folklore #folktale #legends #Storytelling @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood

AimeeMaroux, 10 months ago to histodons

On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!

In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.

It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.

It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.

@antiquidons @histodons #herstory #ancientRome

Roman erotic fresco from Pompeii depicting a couple seemingly about to have intercourse with her riding on top of him. She is wearing a strophium around her breasts and an arm band and anklet while he is fully nude, lying on his back in anticipation.

AimeeMaroux, 10 months ago to histodons

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.

🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius, silver, 175-225 CE, France

#DayOfHermes #Mythology @mythology @antiquidons @histodons #GreekRomanArt #Mercurius

manuel_kamenzin, 10 months ago to medievodons German

Heraldic bunny (14th c.). #medieval @medievodons

Ms: BNF, Français 156, f. 266r.