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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said ‘This one is heavy : try it and you will see.’ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28🏛 Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons #MosaicMonday
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said ‘This one is heavy : try it and you will see.’ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28🏛 Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons #MosaicMonday
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE
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"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: ‘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?’"
Homer, Iliad 21.391🏛 Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: ‘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?’"
Homer, Iliad 21.391🏛 Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE
📸 La Fuente Egeria
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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)🏛 Red-figure vase painting
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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)🏛 Red-figure vase painting
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385🏛 #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385🏛 #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"‘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.’
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🏛 Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"‘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.’
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🏛 Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575🏛 #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575🏛 #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire
#DayOfAres #neoclassical #neoclassicalArt #mythology #history #Ares
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Relief on the Basis Decennalia of a column, Forum Romanum
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Relief on the Basis Decennalia of a column, Forum Romanum
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2🏛 Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2🏛 Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Attic red-figure krater, archaic period
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Attic red-figure krater, archaic period
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Among them sports Ares and keen-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes], while Apollon plays his lyre."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 190🏛 Altar relief depicting Aphrodite, Ares, Apollon, Hera, Zeus, and Hermes
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Among them sports Ares and keen-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes], while Apollon plays his lyre."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 190🏛 Altar relief depicting Aphrodite, Ares, Apollon, Hera, Zeus, and Hermes
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"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🏛 Tetrassarion coin dated 162-163 CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Tetrassarion coin dated 162-163 CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Roman bronze sculpture, 201-300 CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Roman bronze sculpture, 201-300 CE
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"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🏛 Gemstone engraving
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛 Gemstone engraving
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"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🏛️ Chalcidian Black Figure Amphora, ca 560 - 550 BCE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🏛️ Chalcidian Black Figure Amphora, ca 560 - 550 BCE
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"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🎨 Alejandro Pereira
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🎨 Alejandro Pereira
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🎨 Fedini
https://fedini.tumblr.com/post/131707926541/death-of-adonis-have-you-ever-been-so-jealous
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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🎨 Fedini
https://fedini.tumblr.com/post/131707926541/death-of-adonis-have-you-ever-been-so-jealous
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology, #Gaziantep
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
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🏛 Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology, #Gaziantep
@antiquidons @mythology
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"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." 🌈
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives🏛 Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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." 🌈
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives🏛 Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin
@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory