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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Argaeus, whose force was very small, directed the Macedonian young women, as the enemy advanced, to show themselves from mount Ereboea. They accordingly did so; and in a numerous body they poured down from the mountain, their faces covered by wreaths, and brandishing their thyrsi instead of spears."
Polyaenus 4.1🏛 #Maenad on silver plaque, 1st century CE
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Euoi! Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"The Satyrs have the roundrattling tomtom from your patron Dionysos. Even the mountainranging Bassarides [maenads] ride on the backs of lions."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.113🏛 Terracotta relief of a dancing #Maenad and #Satyr with the infant #Dionysos
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"You, #Bacchus [Dionysos], from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, you who frightens tigers with your vine-clad spear, and with a turban binds your horned head."
Seneca, Phaedra 753🏛 #Dionysos with #Ampelos and satyr, Mosaico de Baco, 3rd century CE Museo Arqueológico de #Sevilla
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Some say that because he once gave a judgment against Dionysos, #Midas was changed into an ass; or because he wronged the companions of Dionysos, #Dionysos in anger forced him to have ass's ears."
Suidas s.v. Midas🏛 Dionysos and #Maenad, 62–79 CE, Fresco from #Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Beardless #Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus [Dionysos] on Ismarian hills. He trusted him with a vine hanging from the leaves of an elm; it is now named for the boy. The reckless youth fell picking gaudy grapes on a branch. Liber [#Dionysos] lifted the lost boy to the stars."
#Ovid, Fasti 3.407🏛 Cameo of Dionysos and a #Satyr, 1st century CE
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"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3🏛 #Dionysos, a #Maenad, and #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE
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Dionysos Liknites, “Dionysos of the Winnowing-fan” is an epithet of #Dionysos because at birth he is said to have been laid on a winnowing-fan. Placing newborn children in winnowing-fans is “an omen of wealth and fruitfulness”.
Hermes, too, was "laid in swaddling-bands on the winnowing fan".🏛️ Terracotta relief of a dancing #Maenad and #Satyr with baby #Bacchus (Dionysos)
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In Orphism, a cosmic egg is the source of the universe from which the primordial deity Phanes hatched who is equated, among others, with Bromios, another name of #Dionysos.
🎨 #Dionysos lowers a phiale in his extended right hand, apparently pouring a libation, while #Ariadne or a #maenad offers him an egg 🥚
Campanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. 350–335 BCE#mythology #GreekRomanArt #hellenicPolytheism @antiquidons @mythology @pagan