#ancmed — Public Fediverse posts

The fascinating new Islanders exhibition at the Fitzwilliam asks us to think about the ancient world as a network society. #history #AncientHistory #AncientMediterranean #AncMed #Cyprus #Sicily #Sardinia https://rhakotis.com/2023/04/06/islanders/

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

Marble bust of #Ares after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE.
The god is depicted as a beardless youth with an elaborate helmet, the crest of which is resting on the back of a #sphinx.

#DayOfAres #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon @ @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #AncMed #GreekRomanArt @histodons

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

#Hermes and a #satyr on their way home from the #NewYearsParty 😉
Perhaps it is one of his three sons known as the Satyroi Hermeides, #satyrs who became the messengers of Dionysos.
Athenian red-figure vase painting, dated ca. 525-475 BCE, today in Berlin Antikensammlung F2160

#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon #GreekRomanArt @mythology #GreekGods #AncMed @antiquidons

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

We start the #NewYear with something cute: #Ares bending down to talk to his son #Eros, depicted on a Roman oil lamp made of white clay.
Eros is a winged young boy holding the shield and spear of his father. Ares is in the nude except for his crested helm.
Or could it be Phobos or Deimos?

#DayOfAres #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #AncMed #GreekRomanArt

A dance party for #Satyrday, so that you may channel your inner #satyr or #maenad for your #NewYearsParty tonight 🥳
May the God of Joy, Wine, and Parties heal all your sorrows for this last night of the year! 🥂🍾
Io #Dionysos!

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYearToAll #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #ancientGreece #vasepainting

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday!

Detail of a scene shortly after the birth of #Dionysos from the thigh of #Zeus from a #Sarcophagus depicting the Triumph of Dionysos.
Roman, ca 190 CE
🎨Photo by Lucas Livingston

#DayOfZeus #Zeus #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon #antiquidon #AncientRome

#Dionysos seated on the left, watching an impressively acrobatic performer and her bum. Two other performers admire her front from the right.
325-300 BCE, Sicilian Greek kalyx krater, Apulian style

#BumDayMonday #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon #antiquidon

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

Sol Invictus (#Helios) with a halo of sunlight and #Mithras (to his right) feast together.
Emperor Aurelian built a new temple for Sol, which was dedicated #OTD, 25 December 274 CE. The cult, like Mithraism, had been introduced from the East

Read more about mid-winter festivals (ancient & modern) in my article:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32058351

#DayOfHelios #Sun #SolInvitus #AncMed #ReligioRomana #ancientRome #antiquidon @antiquidons

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

An amazing photo of #Aphrodite in her breast band or #strophion, or in other words: Aphrodite in her bra!
Thank you for sharing, @nessotropheion 💖

https://sunbeam.city/@nessotropheion/101565278373676328

#DayOfAphrodite #Venus #VenusDeity #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #antiquidon #histodon #FashionHistory #FashionHistoryFriday

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday!

Birth of #Dionysos as the Light of Zeus, 'Dios Phos'!
The vase painter of the fifth century wrote next to the childlike figure of the god emerging from the thigh of Zeus: "Dios phos" - "Light of Zeus." The person is called "Diosphos Painter" because of this artwork.
Black figure vase painting, 500-490 BCE

🎨 Egisto Sani: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69716881@N02/31511476664/

#DayOfZeus #Zeus #Solstice #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #antiquidon #histodon

A Laconian bronze #kouros shows us his lil bum 😍
Sadly, he was sold in a private auction.
7th century BCE, Laconia, Greece

#BumDayMonday #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #antiquidon #histodon #ancientGreece

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
This tender scene by sculptor #Praxiteles shows baby #Dionysos in the arms of his big brother #Hermes. It's one of my favourite pieces from #antiquity 🥺
The #artwork was made in the 4th century BCE and rediscovered in 1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Olympia.

#AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodons #antiquidons @antiquidons @mythology #mythodon #mythology #GreekMyth #GreekMythology

When you need some fire under your bum...

Is this the male version of Baubo? 😉

Roman bronze oil lamp, 1st century BCE- 1st century CE

#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #AncMed #antiquidon #histodons

Can #SexJokes that are more than 1000 years old be funny?

Yes!

https://eroticmythology.com/ancient-greek-sex-jokes/

What are your favourite jokes from antiquity?

#ancientHumour #LOL #funny #AncientGreek #ancientGreece #Latin #ancientRome #Vikings #AncMed #antiquidon @antiquidons #histodon #medieval #medievodons #PhallusThursday

The offerings to the god #umd #testudo #goterps #dmv #finals #finalexams #ancient #ancmed

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

"Hear, O divine queen, light-bringing and splendid #Selene,
Bull-horned Moon traversing the air in a race with night.
Nocturnal, torch-bearing, maiden of fair stars,
Moon waxing and waning, feminine and masculine,
Glittering lover of horses, mother of time, bearer of fruit."
Orphic Hymn 9

#DayOfSelene #MoonGoddess #HellenicPolytheism #HellenicPaganism #AncMed #Histodon @antiquidons

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

Ok, #histodons (and @histodons) is a thing already, #archaologists are gathering, but so far scholars in other branches (#philology, #numismatics, #epigraphy etc.) of #AncMed (#Classicists, as some might say) or #antiquities (in a broader sense) aren't as easy to find around here.

#antiquidons, anyone?

If I am simply missing out on a well established #, please enlighten me.