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  1. #Osiris proves that you can have an erection long after you're dead and, with a little magic, even father a son posthumously.

    Osiris statuette, #ancientEgypt

    #PhallusThursday #EgyptianArt #AncMed @antiquidons @phistorians

  2. #Osiris proves that you can have an erection long after you're dead and, with a little magic, even father a son posthumously.

    Osiris statuette, #ancientEgypt

    #PhallusThursday #EgyptianArt #AncMed @antiquidons @phistorians

  3. Picking up the thread from yesterday. To recap, today is the 29th and last day of Boēdromiōn. Since the ten days of an Athenian month are counted *down* rather than *up*, when you only have 29 days you have to skip a day you would have in a 30-day month 🧵

    #GreekHistory #epigraphy #AncMed

    mastodon.social/@rdmond/111228

  4. Picking up the thread from yesterday. To recap, today is the 29th and last day of Boēdromiōn. Since the ten days of an Athenian month are counted *down* rather than *up*, when you only have 29 days you have to skip a day you would have in a 30-day month 🧵

    #GreekHistory #epigraphy #AncMed

    mastodon.social/@rdmond/111228

  5. I promised I would come back to the controversy of the the "omitted day" in the ancient Athenian calendar and today is the day. 🧵

    #GreekHistory #epigraphy #AncMed

    mastodon.social/@rdmond/110854

  6. I promised I would come back to the controversy of the the "omitted day" in the ancient Athenian calendar and today is the day. 🧵

    #GreekHistory #epigraphy #AncMed

    mastodon.social/@rdmond/110854

  7. This year Boēdromiṓn is a "hollow" month, the first one of the year, meaning that it has 29 days rather than 30. It's worth talking a bit about how the choice of "hollow" vs. "full" is maybe the most made-up part of the made-up calendar generated for my bot

    mastodon.social/@hemerologion@

    #AncMed #GreekHistory

  8. This year Boēdromiṓn is a "hollow" month, the first one of the year, meaning that it has 29 days rather than 30. It's worth talking a bit about how the choice of "hollow" vs. "full" is maybe the most made-up part of the made-up calendar generated for my bot

    mastodon.social/@hemerologion@

    #AncMed #GreekHistory

  9. In Delphi, today is Boukátios 15, (probably the last day of) the Pythian Games. Two years to go until the Olympic Games in Elis #AncMed #GreekHistory

    mastodon.social/@hemerologion@

  10. In Delphi, today is Boukátios 15, (probably the last day of) the Pythian Games. Two years to go until the Olympic Games in Elis #AncMed #GreekHistory

    mastodon.social/@hemerologion@

  11. I made a very niche bot to toot today's date on the Athenian calendar @hemerologion

    Happy Skirophoriṓn 17, it's almost the end of 2022/2023!

    #GreekHistory #AncientGreece #Classics #AncMed #Chronology

  12. I made a very niche bot to toot today's date on the Athenian calendar @hemerologion

    Happy Skirophoriṓn 17, it's almost the end of 2022/2023!

    #GreekHistory #AncientGreece #Classics #AncMed #Chronology

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. The Harpyiai or Harpies were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds. They were the spirits/daimones of sudden, dangerous gusts of wind and were sent by the gods to snatch up people and things from the dark earth. A missing person was said to have been snatched by the #Harpies.
    🧵
    #mythology #GreekMythology #AncMed #GreekRomanArt
    @mythology @antiquidons

  16. The Harpyiai or Harpies were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds. They were the spirits/daimones of sudden, dangerous gusts of wind and were sent by the gods to snatch up people and things from the dark earth. A missing person was said to have been snatched by the #Harpies.
    🧵
    #mythology #GreekMythology #AncMed #GreekRomanArt
    @mythology @antiquidons

  17. The Griphoi or #Griffins are hybrid creatures with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. They guard a treasure of gold by the border to Hyperborea. Griffins were popular decorations in #ancientGreek art, for example the helm of the statue of #Athena Piraeus.

    @mythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #GreekMythology #AncMed @antiquidons

  18. The Griphoi or #Griffins are hybrid creatures with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. They guard a treasure of gold by the border to Hyperborea. Griffins were popular decorations in #ancientGreek art, for example the helm of the statue of #Athena Piraeus.

    @mythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #GreekMythology #AncMed @antiquidons

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

    Bronze figurine of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus, the Latin name of the supreme god venerated in the great temple of Baalbek in modern Lebanon. The god has also been called Ba'al, Hadad, Helios and #Zeus.

    #DayOfZeus #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon

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

    Bronze figurine of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus, the Latin name of the supreme god venerated in the great temple of Baalbek in modern Lebanon. The god has also been called Ba'al, Hadad, Helios and #Zeus.

    #DayOfZeus #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

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

    Our first #Selene of the year is found on the #Mosaic of the Planetarium from Italica, an archaeological site located in modern-day #Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of #Seville in #Spain.

    #DayOfSelene #Selene #MosaicMonday #MoonMonday #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon @antiquidons #ancientRome

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

    Our first #Selene of the year is found on the #Mosaic of the Planetarium from Italica, an archaeological site located in modern-day #Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of #Seville in #Spain.

    #DayOfSelene #Selene #MosaicMonday #MoonMonday #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon @antiquidons #ancientRome

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
    And this Saturday is special because some say #Dionysos was born on 31 December. Here we see the Nativity of Dionysos with #Hermes delivering him to the nymphs of Nysa with the satyrs & maenads celebrating!
    #HappyNewYear to all who celebrate. May the God of Joy Dionysos grant us much rejoicing this season, and from that season onwards for many a year! 🥂

    #HappyNewYearToAll #mythology #AncMed @mythology @antiquidons #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt

  30. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
    And this Saturday is special because some say #Dionysos was born on 31 December. Here we see the Nativity of Dionysos with #Hermes delivering him to the nymphs of Nysa with the satyrs & maenads celebrating!
    #HappyNewYear to all who celebrate. May the God of Joy Dionysos grant us much rejoicing this season, and from that season onwards for many a year! 🥂

    #HappyNewYearToAll #mythology #AncMed @mythology @antiquidons #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt

  31. CW: Ancient vase painting of a nude woman pissing into a pot

    For the last #FannyFriday of 2022 we're getting rid of the urine of the old year to be at ease and refreshed for a #NewYear.

    #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #vasepainting #hetaira @antiquidons

  32. Can we establish the hashtag #FannyFriday on #Mastodon, @antiquidons,
    @medievodons, and @histodons?

    #Friday was the #DayofAphrodite for the ancient Greeks, preserved as the Day of Venus in many Romance languages. Therefore it's the best day for celebrating the #vulva in art & culture 👌

    Toot vulva #artefacts & #art, tell vulva #funfacts, or teach us some vulva #history!

    Calling #FannyFriday veterans @rogueclassicist @phistorians @Chapps @vagina_museum @roob
    #AncMed

    Banner by @Ayhaidebil1 🦃

  33. 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

  34. #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

  35. 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:
    patreon.com/posts/32058351

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

  36. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology every Saturday!
    Baby #Dionysos is born from the thigh of his father #Zeus, a goddess helping him as a midwife, possibly #Hera or #Eileithyia.
    Many of the other gods watch the scene, like #Pan right above and #Hermes right below.
    #MerryChristmasEve to those who celebrate. May the joyful spirit of #Dionysos be with you 🍷

    #mythology #AncMed @mythology @antiquidons #antiquidons #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt