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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday

"Odin and Frigg sat in Hliðskjálf and looked over all the worlds. Odin said: "You see Agnar, your fosterling, how he begets children with a giantess in the cave? But Geirröth, my fosterling, is a king & now rules over his land." Frigg said: "He's so miserly he tortures his guests if he thinks that too many of them come."
Grímnismál

🎨 #Frigg on the Throne by AlessiaHV
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday

"Odin and Frigg sat in Hliðskjálf and looked over all the worlds. Odin said: "You see Agnar, your fosterling, how he begets children with a giantess in the cave? But Geirröth, my fosterling, is a king & now rules over his land." Frigg said: "He's so miserly he tortures his guests if he thinks that too many of them come."
Grímnismál

🎨 #Frigg on the Throne by AlessiaHV
https://www.deviantart.com/alessiahv/art/Frigg-on-the-Throne-and-Eir-at-her-side-1135089587

#DayOfAphrodite #indieArt

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday.

"Frigg, I believe,
knows all that happens,
although she says it not."
Freyja in Lokasenna

🏛 Frigg or Valkyrie, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday.

"Frigg, I believe,
knows all that happens,
although she says it not."
Freyja in Lokasenna

🏛 Frigg or Valkyrie, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden

#DayOfAphrodite #MedievalArt #Frigg #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life 🌹

"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28

🏛 Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE

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Have a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life 🌹

"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28

🏛 Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"The one who strengthens someone in pain,
Who comforts a young one in love,
Who makes the dancer beautiful over drinks,
That god has descended to the ground,
Offering a calming lovespell for mortals,
A medicine against grief,
The vine’s child, wine."
Anacreonta 56

🏛 #Aphrodite crowning a Herm of #Dionysos, Myrina 150-100 BCE

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

"The one who strengthens someone in pain,
Who comforts a young one in love,
Who makes the dancer beautiful over drinks,
That god has descended to the ground,
Offering a calming lovespell for mortals,
A medicine against grief,
The vine’s child, wine."
Anacreonta 56

🏛 #Aphrodite crowning a Herm of #Dionysos, Myrina 150-100 BCE

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

"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite] and the Horae."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5

🏛 #Aphrodite, Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Praxiteles from #Ostia, Italy

📸 M Harrsch
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/8428695066/in/photostream/

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

"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite] and the Horae."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5

🏛 #Aphrodite, Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Praxiteles from #Ostia, Italy

📸 M Harrsch
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/8428695066/in/photostream/

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

"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus

🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya

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

"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus

🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya

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

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

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

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Aphrodite riding on a goose, Greek sculpture, 4th century BCE, MFA

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Aphrodite riding on a goose, Greek sculpture, 4th century BCE, MFA

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest i drop you in anger, and hate you as much as i now terribly love you."
Homer, Iliad 3.395

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

"Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest i drop you in anger, and hate you as much as i now terribly love you."
Homer, Iliad 3.395

🎨 Chotomy
https://www.tumblr.com/chotomy/653996245619212288

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

"Himeros (Desire), the companion of Eros (Love), so suffuses the eyes that it seems clearly to drip from them."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.9

🏛 Aphrodite on a neck-amphora, Tomb 69 of Lucinella, National Archeological Museum, Paestum

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

"Himeros (Desire), the companion of Eros (Love), so suffuses the eyes that it seems clearly to drip from them."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.9

🏛 Aphrodite on a neck-amphora, Tomb 69 of Lucinella, National Archeological Museum, Paestum

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

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

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

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

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

"[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

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

"[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"At the command of Kypris [Aphrodite], Eros once again pours sweetly down and warms my heart."
Alcman, Fragment 59

🏛 Aphrodite with little Eros figure (possibly), Attic red-figure Skyphos attributed to the Shouvalov Painter, Musée du Louvre

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #Eros

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

"At the command of Kypris [Aphrodite], Eros once again pours sweetly down and warms my heart."
Alcman, Fragment 59

🏛 Aphrodite with little Eros figure (possibly), Attic red-figure Skyphos attributed to the Shouvalov Painter, Musée du Louvre

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #Eros

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

"[On the Egyptian island of Pharos] There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of Aphrodite Xenia (of the Stranger)."
Herodotus, Histories 2.112

🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene from Ptolemaic Egypt made from faience, late 2nd century BCE.

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

"[On the Egyptian island of Pharos] There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of Aphrodite Xenia (of the Stranger)."
Herodotus, Histories 2.112

🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene from Ptolemaic Egypt made from faience, late 2nd century BCE.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #RomanEgypt #ancientRome #ancientEgypt #EgyptianArt

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

"Alexandros [Paris] fought a duel with Menelaos, but as he was being beaten, Aphrodite spirited him away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4.1

🏛 Head of Aphrodite, 330-300 BCE, Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"Alexandros [Paris] fought a duel with Menelaos, but as he was being beaten, Aphrodite spirited him away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4.1

🏛 Head of Aphrodite, 330-300 BCE, Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"After her came grey wolves, fawning on her, and grim-eyed lions, and bears, and fleet leopards, ravenous for deer: and she was glad in heart to see them, and put desire in their breasts, so that they all mated, two together."
Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 68

🏛 Greek medallion, 3rd century BCE, Amrit in Syria.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"After her came grey wolves, fawning on her, and grim-eyed lions, and bears, and fleet leopards, ravenous for deer: and she was glad in heart to see them, and put desire in their breasts, so that they all mated, two together."
Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 68

🏛 Greek medallion, 3rd century BCE, Amrit in Syria.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

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

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo

🏛 Aphrodite #mosaic from Bouleuterion, 2nd century CE

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

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo

🏛 Aphrodite #mosaic from Bouleuterion, 2nd century CE

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#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite #MosaicMonday

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

"Kypris [Aphrodite] shines out from the clam sea. Over the silver on dancing dolphins ride guileful Eros and laughing Himeros (Desire), and the chorus of bow-backed fish plunging in the waves sports with Paphia where she swims."
Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite

🏛 Venus, Roman copy of a Greek original, with a nice mons veneris for #FannyFriday

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#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite

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

"Kypris [Aphrodite] shines out from the clam sea. Over the silver on dancing dolphins ride guileful Eros and laughing Himeros (Desire), and the chorus of bow-backed fish plunging in the waves sports with Paphia where she swims."
Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite

🏛 Venus, Roman copy of a Greek original, with a nice mons veneris for #FannyFriday

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite

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

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Detail of #Venus in the Planetarium mosaic
📸 Daniel González Acuña, 2016

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#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite

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

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Detail of #Venus in the Planetarium mosaic
📸 Daniel González Acuña, 2016

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Aphrodite

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

"Of Kythereia [Aphrodite], born in Kypros, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Kypros; grant me a cheerful song."
Homeric Hymn 10

🏛 Aphrodite votive relief, 4th century BCE

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

"Of Kythereia [Aphrodite], born in Kypros, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Kypros; grant me a cheerful song."
Homeric Hymn 10

🏛 Aphrodite votive relief, 4th century BCE

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

"The Kyprian Queen [Aphrodite] brooded above their souls, that olden love might be renewed, and heart-ache chased away."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 14.160

🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene, 1-2nd century CE, Musée Royal de Mariemont

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

"The Kyprian Queen [Aphrodite] brooded above their souls, that olden love might be renewed, and heart-ache chased away."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 14.160

🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene, 1-2nd century CE, Musée Royal de Mariemont

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

"[Is] Kypris [Aphrodite], [again] moving some woman of Akhaia to follow after those Trojans she loves to hopelessly, laying hold on the fair dresses of the Akhaian women."
Homer, Iliad 5.422

🏛 Aphrodite of Paestum figurine

📸 Francesco Valletta and Giovanni Grippo

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

"[Is] Kypris [Aphrodite], [again] moving some woman of Akhaia to follow after those Trojans she loves to hopelessly, laying hold on the fair dresses of the Akhaian women."
Homer, Iliad 5.422

🏛 Aphrodite of Paestum figurine

📸 Francesco Valletta and Giovanni Grippo

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

"It was Aphrodite who, because of Adonis whom both she and Herakles loved, taught Nessos the centaur the trap with which to snare Herakles."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2

🏛 Herakles sacrificing a bull to Aphrodite by Piringer after an ancient Greek original

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

"It was Aphrodite who, because of Adonis whom both she and Herakles loved, taught Nessos the centaur the trap with which to snare Herakles."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2

🏛 Herakles sacrificing a bull to Aphrodite by Piringer after an ancient Greek original

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

"It is said, following the resentment of Aphrodite against Menelaos who had arranged the abduction of Helene: he had promised a hecatomb to Aphrodite as the price of the marriage, and didn't offer it."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 4

🏛 Venus of Arles, Hymettus marble, Roman artwork, end of the 1st century BCE

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

"It is said, following the resentment of Aphrodite against Menelaos who had arranged the abduction of Helene: he had promised a hecatomb to Aphrodite as the price of the marriage, and didn't offer it."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 4

🏛 Venus of Arles, Hymettus marble, Roman artwork, end of the 1st century BCE

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

"Pasiphaë, daughter of Sol and wife of Minos, for several years did not make offerings to the goddess #Venus. Because of this Venus inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 40

🏛 Campana plaque, 50 BCE - 50 CE

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

"Pasiphaë, daughter of Sol and wife of Minos, for several years did not make offerings to the goddess #Venus. Because of this Venus inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 40

🏛 Campana plaque, 50 BCE - 50 CE

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

"According to Mimnermos, because Aphrodite had been wounded by Diomedes she caused [his wife] Aigialeia to go to bed with many lovers and to be loved by Kometes, the son of Sthenelos. And when Diomedes arrived in Argos she plotted against him."
Mimnermus, Fragment 22

🏛 Aphrodite with the Erotes, 2nd - early 1st century BCE

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

"According to Mimnermos, because Aphrodite had been wounded by Diomedes she caused [his wife] Aigialeia to go to bed with many lovers and to be loved by Kometes, the son of Sthenelos. And when Diomedes arrived in Argos she plotted against him."
Mimnermus, Fragment 22

🏛 Aphrodite with the Erotes, 2nd - early 1st century BCE

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

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

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

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

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#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

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

"There's also a statue of #Venus on #Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus."
Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.8.2

🏛 Aphroditos Anasyromenos (lifting the skirt).

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#DayOfAphrodite #Aphrodite #PrideMonth

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

"There's also a statue of #Venus on #Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus."
Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.8.2

🏛 Aphroditos Anasyromenos (lifting the skirt).

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #Aphrodite #PrideMonth

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

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

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

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

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

"Bitto and Nannion of Samos will not go to the house of Cypris by the road the goddess ordains, but desert to other things which are not seemly. Ο Lady Cypris, look with hate on the fugitives from your bed."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.207

🏛 Mirror with women bathing before a statue of #Aphrodite on a pillar, 110–117 CE

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology

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

"Bitto and Nannion of Samos will not go to the house of Cypris by the road the goddess ordains, but desert to other things which are not seemly. Ο Lady Cypris, look with hate on the fugitives from your bed."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.207

🏛 Mirror with women bathing before a statue of #Aphrodite on a pillar, 110–117 CE

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology