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It's the #DayOfDionysos at Erotic Mythology!
According to some, December or January are the months in which #Dionysos was born from Zeus' thigh. Most of his festivals take place in #winter too, like the Rural #Dionysia, #Haloa, and #Lenaia.
Here, baby Dionysos is held by his foster father #Silenos.#GreekMythology @mythology #mythology #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #Dionysus
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It's the #DayOfDionysos at Erotic Mythology!
According to some, December or January are the months in which #Dionysos was born from Zeus' thigh. Most of his festivals take place in #winter too, like the Rural #Dionysia, #Haloa, and #Lenaia.
Here, baby Dionysos is held by his foster father #Silenos.#GreekMythology @mythology #mythology #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #Dionysus
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It's the #DayOfDionysos at Erotic Mythology!
According to some, December or January are the months in which #Dionysos was born from Zeus' thigh. Most of his festivals take place in #winter too, like the Rural #Dionysia, #Haloa, and #Lenaia.
Here, baby Dionysos is held by his foster father #Silenos.#GreekMythology @mythology #mythology #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #Dionysus
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#SarcophagusSaturday I'm often asked if the Romans painted their spectacularly carved sarcophagi. Yes, they certainly did, as you can see from the red pigment remaining on this 3rd c. CE beauty with a Dionysian procession. ALT for more. #polychromy 1/
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1/n Thanks to Prof. Voth`s lectures maybe got an understanding of one aspect of the dionysian myth.
The mystical place #Nysa is a wildernis outside the realm of civilisation of man, a place in the mountains where #Dionysos was raised by the #Nymphs and later returns with his #Maenads and #Satyrs to celebrate and dance.
As a #chtonic deity who travels between the underworld, the midworld and the heavens, for he is one of the #Olympians it is possible that Nysa could be understood as part...
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It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 -
It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 -
It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 -
It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 -
It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 -
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!
"He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45 -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The god [Hermes] spoke to her [Ino] in friendly coaxing tones, and let pass a divine message from his prophetic throat: ‘Madam, receive a new son [baby Dionysos]; lay in your bosom the child of Semele your sister."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9. 59🏛 #Hermes, child Dionysos and Ino, Attic red-figure hydria, Athens, A. Kyrou Collection 71
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Goatherd Pan cried out: ‘I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! I wish I could be lord of the mindtripping grape, like Bakkhos [Dionysos]!’"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289🏛 Dionysos and Pan, 50-150 CE
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Pan #ancientRome
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Against Mene the moon I [Helios the Sun] move my rolling ball, the sparkling nourisher of sheaf-producing growth, and pass on my endless circuit about the turning-point of the Zodiac, creating the measures of time."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.244🏛️ #Luna, Roman bronze figurine, 100 BCE - 100 CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[Eros] turned his flight opposite the rays of morning, smiling that he had set afire that great charioteer of the heavenly car with his little darts, and the light of the loves had conquered the light of Helios (the Sun)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33.182🏛️ Helios relief, Musée Cinquantenaire, Belgium
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙
"Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt, #Pompeii, 1st century CE
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"She [Gaia] prayed to Titan Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.543🏛️ Roman bronze figurine of Sol, Musée d'art et d'histoire Genève
📸 Hurni Christoph
https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/19816816814 -
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The changing circuits of Selene as she comes back and back again--how she changes her returning shape in three circles, new-shining, half-moon, and gleaming with full face; how her splendour now touching, now shrinking back, at the male furnace of father Helios"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.279🏛️ #Selene, #Mosaic of the Planetarium, Italica
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88🏛️ #Selene riding her chariot pulled by two bulls, Sardonyx cameo, 2nd century CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mene (the Moon) helped Bromios [Dionysos], attacking Pentheus with her divine scourge; the frenzied reckless fury of distracting Selene joining in displayed many a phantom shape to maddened Pentheus [who became lunatic or moon-struck]"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 46.97🏛️ #Selene on an oil lamp, 2nd-3rd century, #Corinth
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"She turned her round eyes delighted in all directions; only the boars she would not watch in their pleasures, for being a prophet she knew, that in the shape of a wild boar, #Ares with jagged tusk and spitting deadly poison was destined to weave fate for Adonis in jealous madness."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.1🎨 Fedini
https://fedini.tumblr.com/post/131707926541/death-of-adonis-have-you-ever-been-so-jealous
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both--I have horns and I ride a bull!’ So he called out boasting to the round Moon. #Selene looked with a jealous eye through the air, to see how Ampleos rode on the murderous marauding bull. She sent him a cattlechasing gadfly [it threw him off & gorged him to death]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca🏛️ 1st century CE, now at British Museum
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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@pagan @antiquidons The last day of the #Anthesteria is called #Chytroi or #Khýtroi, 'The Pots'. It's a festival of the dead where fruit or pulse is offered to the souls of the dead, who are then bidden to depart, and to #Hermes Chthonios, who should guide them back to the underworld. No one is supposed to eat the pottage, which is food of the dead. A rehearsal to select the players for the City Dionysia also takes place on this day.
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The water bride-groom [#Okeanos] begat #Klymene, fairest of the Naiads, whom #Tethys nursed on her wet breast, her youngest, a maiden with lovely arms. For her beauty Helios pined, who travels the sevenzone circuit [the zodiac] garland-wise. Helios dispenser of fire was afflicted with another fire!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.108🏛️ #Helios-Sol, Roman bronze lamp, 400 CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The water bride-groom [#Okeanos] begat #Klymene, fairest of the Naiads, whom #Tethys nursed on her wet breast, her youngest, a maiden with lovely arms. For her beauty Helios pined, who travels the sevenzone circuit [the zodiac] garland-wise. Helios dispenser of fire was afflicted with another fire!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.108🏛️ #Helios-Sol, Roman bronze lamp, 400 CE
@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology