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  1. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "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, Sigrdrรญfumรกl

    ๐Ÿ› Gold bracteate from Trollhรคttan, #Sweden

    #DayOfAres #mythology #Tyr #history #antiquidons

  2. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "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, Sigrdrรญfumรกl

    ๐Ÿ› Gold bracteate from Trollhรคttan, #Sweden

    #DayOfAres #mythology #Tyr #history #antiquidons

  3. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    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

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze

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

  4. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    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

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze

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

  5. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear ๐Ÿพ

    "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

    ๐Ÿ› Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE

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

  6. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear ๐Ÿพ

    "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

    ๐Ÿ› Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE

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

  7. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

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

    ๐Ÿ› Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria

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

  8. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

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

    ๐Ÿ› Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria

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

  9. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares went with the Trojans. Who then was the first and who the last that they slaughtered, Hektor, Priamos' son, and Ares armed with brass?"
    Homer, Iliad 5.699

    ๐Ÿ› Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  10. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares went with the Trojans. Who then was the first and who the last that they slaughtered, Hektor, Priamos' son, and Ares armed with brass?"
    Homer, Iliad 5.699

    ๐Ÿ› Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  11. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: โ€˜Why once more, you dogfly, have you stirred up trouble among the gods with the blast of your blown fury, and the pride of your heart driving you?โ€™"
    Homer, Iliad 21.391

    ๐Ÿ› Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE

    ๐Ÿ“ธ La Fuente Egeria
    flickriver.com/photos/27906589

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  12. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: โ€˜Why once more, you dogfly, have you stirred up trouble among the gods with the blast of your blown fury, and the pride of your heart driving you?โ€™"
    Homer, Iliad 21.391

    ๐Ÿ› Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE

    ๐Ÿ“ธ La Fuente Egeria
    flickriver.com/photos/27906589

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  13. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
    Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)

    ๐Ÿ› Red-figure vase painting

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientGreece

  14. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
    Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)

    ๐Ÿ› Red-figure vase painting

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientGreece

  15. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
    Homer, Iliad 5. 385

    ๐Ÿ› #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientRome

  16. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
    Homer, Iliad 5. 385

    ๐Ÿ› #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientRome

  17. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Sokrates: 'Ares, then, if you like, would be named for his virility and courage, or for his hard and unbending nature, which is called arraton; so Ares would be in every way a fitting name for the god of war.'"
    Plato, Cratylus 400d

    ๐Ÿ› Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientRome

  18. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Sokrates: 'Ares, then, if you like, would be named for his virility and courage, or for his hard and unbending nature, which is called arraton; so Ares would be in every way a fitting name for the god of war.'"
    Plato, Cratylus 400d

    ๐Ÿ› Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientRome

  19. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "โ€˜Should we not address a prayer to Comrade #Mars [...] Appoint 10 representatives to accompany me; that will suffice to attack the nearest village and enable me to bring back a meal fit for Salian priests.โ€™
    So he set out; the rest laid a huge fire and set up an altar to Mars on the green turf."
    Apuleius, The Golden Ass 7.10

    ๐Ÿ› Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  20. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "โ€˜Should we not address a prayer to Comrade #Mars [...] Appoint 10 representatives to accompany me; that will suffice to attack the nearest village and enable me to bring back a meal fit for Salian priests.โ€™
    So he set out; the rest laid a huge fire and set up an altar to Mars on the green turf."
    Apuleius, The Golden Ass 7.10

    ๐Ÿ› Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  21. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
    Stesichorus, Fragment 575

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire

    #DayOfAres #neoclassical #neoclassicalArt #mythology #history #Ares

  22. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
    Stesichorus, Fragment 575

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire

    #DayOfAres #neoclassical #neoclassicalArt #mythology #history #Ares

  23. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The Sabines, since they had long been at war with the Ombrikoi, vowed to dedicate everything that was produced that year; and, on winning the victory, they partly sacrificed & partly dedicated all that was produced; then a dearth ensued, and [...] devoted to Ares all the children born that year."
    Strabo, Geography 5.4.12

    ๐Ÿ› Relief on the Basis Decennalia of a column, Forum Romanum

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  24. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The Sabines, since they had long been at war with the Ombrikoi, vowed to dedicate everything that was produced that year; and, on winning the victory, they partly sacrificed & partly dedicated all that was produced; then a dearth ensued, and [...] devoted to Ares all the children born that year."
    Strabo, Geography 5.4.12

    ๐Ÿ› Relief on the Basis Decennalia of a column, Forum Romanum

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  25. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
    Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2

    ๐Ÿ› Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  26. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
    Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2

    ๐Ÿ› Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  27. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
    Oppian, Halieutica 2.24

    ๐Ÿ› Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCEโ€“3rd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  28. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
    Oppian, Halieutica 2.24

    ๐Ÿ› Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCEโ€“3rd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  29. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares [War], human blood."
    Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 242

    ๐Ÿ› Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  30. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares [War], human blood."
    Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 242

    ๐Ÿ› Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE

    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #history #Ares

  31. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "And he [Hermes] called this woman Pandora (All-Gifts), because all they who dwelt on Olympos gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread."
    Hesiod, Works & Days

    ๐Ÿ› Attic red-figure krater, archaic period

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  32. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "And he [Hermes] called this woman Pandora (All-Gifts), because all they who dwelt on Olympos gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread."
    Hesiod, Works & Days

    ๐Ÿ› Attic red-figure krater, archaic period

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

  33. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Among them sports Ares and keen-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes], while Apollon plays his lyre."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 190

    ๐Ÿ› Altar relief depicting Aphrodite, Ares, Apollon, Hera, Zeus, and Hermes

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #Aphrodite #Apollon #Hera #Zeus #Hermes

  34. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Among them sports Ares and keen-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes], while Apollon plays his lyre."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 190

    ๐Ÿ› Altar relief depicting Aphrodite, Ares, Apollon, Hera, Zeus, and Hermes

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #Aphrodite #Apollon #Hera #Zeus #Hermes

  35. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first the lay together secretly in the dwelling of Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded goddess and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos."
    Homer, Odyssey 8.267

    ๐Ÿ› Tetrassarion coin dated 162-163 CE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #numismatics #Ares #Aphrodite

  36. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first the lay together secretly in the dwelling of Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded goddess and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos."
    Homer, Odyssey 8.267

    ๐Ÿ› Tetrassarion coin dated 162-163 CE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #numismatics #Ares #Aphrodite

  37. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "From many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of Ares, destruction double-armed, a gory pair."
    Aeschylus, Agamemnon 638

    ๐Ÿ› Roman bronze sculpture, 201-300 CE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  38. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "From many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of Ares, destruction double-armed, a gory pair."
    Aeschylus, Agamemnon 638

    ๐Ÿ› Roman bronze sculpture, 201-300 CE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  39. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The space of the continents did bold Ares watch, sitting armed on the high top of Thrakian Haimos, and his horses were stalled by the seven-chambered cave of Boreas. And the other kept watch over the far-flung islands."
    Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 51

    ๐Ÿ› Gemstone engraving

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  40. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The space of the continents did bold Ares watch, sitting armed on the high top of Thrakian Haimos, and his horses were stalled by the seven-chambered cave of Boreas. And the other kept watch over the far-flung islands."
    Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 51

    ๐Ÿ› Gemstone engraving

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  41. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Cadmus along with Harmonia his wife, daughter of Venus and Mars, after their children had been killed, were turned into snakes in the region of Illyria by the wrath of Mars, because Cadmus had slain the Dracon."
    Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 6

    ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Chalcidian Black Figure Amphora, ca 560 - 550 BCE
    theoi.com/Gallery/M28.6.html

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  42. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Cadmus along with Harmonia his wife, daughter of Venus and Mars, after their children had been killed, were turned into snakes in the region of Illyria by the wrath of Mars, because Cadmus had slain the Dracon."
    Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 6

    ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Chalcidian Black Figure Amphora, ca 560 - 550 BCE
    theoi.com/Gallery/M28.6.html

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  43. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Agraulos and Ares had a daughter Alkippe. As Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon and a nymph named Eurtye, was trying to rape Alkippe, Ares caught him at it and slew him."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.180

    ๐ŸŽจ Alejandro Pereira
    theartofalejandropereira.blogs

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  44. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Agraulos and Ares had a daughter Alkippe. As Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon and a nymph named Eurtye, was trying to rape Alkippe, Ares caught him at it and slew him."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.180

    ๐ŸŽจ Alejandro Pereira
    theartofalejandropereira.blogs

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  45. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "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

    ๐ŸŽจ Fedini

    fedini.tumblr.com/post/1317079

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  46. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "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

    ๐ŸŽจ Fedini

    fedini.tumblr.com/post/1317079

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  47. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    Welcome to #WrathMonth:

    "Now as the high-hearted Trojans watched [the death of two allies] [. . .] the anger in all of them was stirred [by Ares]."
    Homer, Iliad 5. 27

    ๐Ÿ› Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology, #Gaziantep

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  48. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    Welcome to #WrathMonth:

    "Now as the high-hearted Trojans watched [the death of two allies] [. . .] the anger in all of them was stirred [by Ares]."
    Homer, Iliad 5. 27

    ๐Ÿ› Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology, #Gaziantep

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  49. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The Sacred Band [of Thebes], we are told, was first formed by Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved." ๐ŸŒˆ
    Plutarch, The Parallel Lives

    ๐Ÿ› Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory

  50. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "The Sacred Band [of Thebes], we are told, was first formed by Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved." ๐ŸŒˆ
    Plutarch, The Parallel Lives

    ๐Ÿ› Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory

  51. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    The Amazons are #Ares' daughters

    "The Gargarians [...] have intercourse with them for the sake of begetting children, doing this in secrecy and darkness, any Gargarian at random with any Amazon; and after making them pregnant they send them away; and the females that are born are retained by the #Amazons themselves, but the males are taken to the Gargarians to be brought up."
    Strabo, Geography, 11.5.1

    @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  52. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    The Amazons are #Ares' daughters

    "The Gargarians [...] have intercourse with them for the sake of begetting children, doing this in secrecy and darkness, any Gargarian at random with any Amazon; and after making them pregnant they send them away; and the females that are born are retained by the #Amazons themselves, but the males are taken to the Gargarians to be brought up."
    Strabo, Geography, 11.5.1

    @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  53. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    There is one character from #GreekMythology who might have been a male lover to #Ares: Alektryon, a youth dear to Ares, who would guard the door while Ares was with Aphrodite:

    "A young man called Alektryon; he was a friend of Ares,โ€” used to join in his revels and junketings, and give him a hand in his love affairs."
    Lucian, Gallus 3

    ๐Ÿ“ธ Colin Wayne, photographed by David Vance, 2013

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    #DayOfAres #mythology

  54. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    There is one character from #GreekMythology who might have been a male lover to #Ares: Alektryon, a youth dear to Ares, who would guard the door while Ares was with Aphrodite:

    "A young man called Alektryon; he was a friend of Ares,โ€” used to join in his revels and junketings, and give him a hand in his love affairs."
    Lucian, Gallus 3

    ๐Ÿ“ธ Colin Wayne, photographed by David Vance, 2013

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #mythology

  55. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares . . . ally of Themis (divine law), stern governor of the rebellious." โœŠ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
    Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares

    ๐Ÿ› Ares in an Attic black-figure vase painting, dated 515 - 500 BCE

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    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  56. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Ares . . . ally of Themis (divine law), stern governor of the rebellious." โœŠ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
    Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares

    ๐Ÿ› Ares in an Attic black-figure vase painting, dated 515 - 500 BCE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  57. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    โ€˜Bronze will come together with bronze, and #Ares [war] will redden the sea with blood.'
    Herodotus, Histories 8. 77. 1

    ๐Ÿ› Detail of Ares on a two-handled jar depicting the birth of Athena, Attic black figure ceramic, 540 BCE

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    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  58. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    โ€˜Bronze will come together with bronze, and #Ares [war] will redden the sea with blood.'
    Herodotus, Histories 8. 77. 1

    ๐Ÿ› Detail of Ares on a two-handled jar depicting the birth of Athena, Attic black figure ceramic, 540 BCE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

  59. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Blood-stained be the cavalier's spoils that deck the temple of #Ares; in those I take delight."
    Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 9.322

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars relief, 3rd Century CE

    ๐Ÿ“ธ Wolfgang Sauber
    flickr.com/photos/28772513@N07

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    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #ReliefWednesday

  60. Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

    "Blood-stained be the cavalier's spoils that deck the temple of #Ares; in those I take delight."
    Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 9.322

    ๐Ÿ› #Mars relief, 3rd Century CE

    ๐Ÿ“ธ Wolfgang Sauber
    flickr.com/photos/28772513@N07

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #ReliefWednesday