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  1. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday πŸ—‘οΈ

    "You must know victory-runes
    if you want to know victory. Carve them
    into your sword's hilt, on the blade guards
    and the blades, invoking Tyr's name twice."
    Poetic Edda, SigrdrΓ­fumΓ‘l

    πŸ› Gold bracteate from TrollhΓ€ttan, #Sweden

    #DayOfAres #mythology #Tyr #history #antiquidons

  2. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday πŸ—‘οΈ

    The #NewYear is barely a week old and shows already that Ares will be busy. Let's not forget he is also the god of riots and rebellion:

    "Ares . . . ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious."
    Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares

    πŸ› #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons

  3. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
    Virgil, Georgics 1.395

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman statuette

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  4. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
    Virgil, Georgics 1.395

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman statuette

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  5. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
    Virgil, Georgics 1.395

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman statuette

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  6. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
    Virgil, Georgics 1.395

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman statuette

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  7. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
    Virgil, Georgics 1.395

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman statuette

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  8. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday πŸ—‘οΈ

    Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear 🍾

    "The Amazones of the Doiantian plain were by no means gentle, well-conducted folk; they were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war. War, indeed, was in their blood, daughters of Ares as they were."
    Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.989

    πŸ› Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons

  9. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
    Euripides, Phoenicians 175

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  10. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
    Euripides, Phoenicians 175

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  11. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
    Euripides, Phoenicians 175

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  12. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
    Euripides, Phoenicians 175

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  13. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
    Euripides, Phoenicians 175

    πŸ›οΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  14. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

    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

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  15. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday πŸ—‘οΈ

    "One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said β€˜This one is heavy : try it and you will see.’ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
    The Anacreontea, Fragment 28

    πŸ› Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons #MosaicMonday

  16. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  17. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  18. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  19. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  20. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  21. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

    πŸ›οΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

  22. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

    πŸ›οΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

  23. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

    πŸ›οΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

  24. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

    πŸ›οΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

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

    "There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

    πŸ›οΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

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

    "Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

    πŸ›οΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

  27. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

    πŸ›οΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

  28. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

    πŸ›οΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

  29. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

    πŸ›οΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

  30. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

    πŸ›οΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

  31. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
    Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937

    πŸ›οΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene

  32. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
    Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937

    πŸ›οΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene

  33. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
    Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937

    πŸ›οΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene

  34. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
    Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937

    πŸ›οΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene

  35. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
    Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937

    πŸ›οΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene

  36. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii

    πŸ“Έ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
    flickr.com/photos/pauljill/414

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  37. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii

    πŸ“Έ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
    flickr.com/photos/pauljill/414

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  38. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii

    πŸ“Έ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
    flickr.com/photos/pauljill/414

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  39. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii

    πŸ“Έ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
    flickr.com/photos/pauljill/414

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  40. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28

    πŸ›οΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii

    πŸ“Έ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
    flickr.com/photos/pauljill/414

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  41. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
    Timotheus, Frag 803

    πŸ›οΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  42. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
    Timotheus, Frag 803

    πŸ›οΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  43. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
    Timotheus, Frag 803

    πŸ›οΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  44. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
    Timotheus, Frag 803

    πŸ›οΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  45. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
    Timotheus, Frag 803

    πŸ›οΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

  46. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
    Propertius, Elegies 2. 15

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday

  47. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
    Propertius, Elegies 2. 15

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday

  48. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
    Propertius, Elegies 2. 15

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday

  49. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
    Propertius, Elegies 2. 15

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday

  50. It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›

    "It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
    Propertius, Elegies 2. 15

    πŸ›οΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday