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"As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
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After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comrades’ heads with the drained blood and promptly spread the sails of their ships to the winds, thinking to placate them."
Dudo of St Quentin🏛️ Thor the Wind-Raiser, whalebone idol, Lund, Skåne, #Sweden
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"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þrymskviða 30, translation by Frank E. Bryant, 1903🏛️ Bronze figurine identified as #Thor from Eyrarland, Iceland, discovered in 1815 CE
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"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
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"And now the day was spent, the hour stole on when one would doubt if it were light or dark, some lingering light at night's vague borderlands. Suddenly the whole house began to shake, the lamps flared up, and all the rooms were bright with flashing crimson fires, and phantom forms of savage beasts of prey howled all around."
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"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, Attic red figure vase painting
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"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
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"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14🏛️ #Jupiter, 1st century CE, Tivoli
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"Zeus Kronides received him in a chamber fit for birth and having covered him in his thigh shut him up with golden clasps, hidden from Hera. And he brought forth, when the Moirai had perfected him, the bull-horned god and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks."
Euripides, Bacchae 90🏛️ Birth of Dionysos by George Platt Lynes, 1945-49
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"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze, 1st century CE
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"And Zeus, when Prometheus had taken fire and given it to men, put him in chains."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.15.2🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes in The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, 1878 CE
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"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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"When Zeus was beginning warfare against the Titans [...] he saw an eagle fly nearby as a favourable omen for victory. In return for this happy omen, and particularly because it was indeed followed by victory, he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour."
Anacreon, Fragment 505d🏛️ Iupiter, Asia Minor, 2nd-3rd century CE
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"Zeus breathes deeply with delight, like men who have undergone a great contest for a great prize, and he looks searchingly for his daughter, feeling pride in his offspring; nor yet is there even on Hera's face any trace of indignation; nay, she rejoices, as though Athena were her daughter also."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.27🏛️ Greek red-figure stamnos, 500-460 BCE
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"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ #Ganymedes and Zeus as an eagle, Roman #mosaic, 2nd century CE
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"There is also [in Troizenos, Argolis] a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Soter (the Saviour), which, they say, was made by [the mythical] Aitios, the son of Anthas, when he was king."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.10🏛️ Glass cast, Roman cameo, bust of Zeus-Jupiter, signet ring, 30 BCE - No later than 200 CE
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"On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen. Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.2🏛️ #Jupiter, Capitoline Museums, Rome
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"Jupiter, mindful of his indiscretion, rescued her [Kallisto] and placed her and her son among the constellations. He named her Arctos (Bear), and her son Arctophylas (Bear Watcher)."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.1🏛️ #Jupiter as Planet Jupiter in the #Mosaic of the Plantearium, ancient Roman city of Itálica, Santiponce, Seville, Spain
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"[Zeus] soared ascending to the ethereal sky, and by his nod called up the trailing clouds and massed a storm, with lightnings in the squalls, and thunder and the bolts that never miss."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.302🏛️ Jupiter, plaster copy of a Roman relief ca. 117–138 CE, Thorvaldsens Museum
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"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treachery and by slippery speeches, put her away inside his own belly. This was by the advice of Gaia and starry Ouranos."
Hesiod, Theogony 886🏛️ Stamnos, 490 BCE
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"Typhoeus, would have been king of gods and of mortals, had not [Zeus] the father of gods and men been sharp to perceive it and gave a hard, heavy clap of thunder, so that the earth gave grisly reverberation, and the wide heaven above, and the sea, and the streams of Okeanos, and the underground chambers."
Hesiod, Theogony 820🏛️ Chalcidian black-figure hydria, ca 540 BCE
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"In the course of the battle [the giant] Porphyrion rushed against Herakles and also Hera. #Zeus instilled him with a passion for Hera and when he tore her gown and wanted to rape her, she called for help, whereat Zeus hit him with a thunderbolt and Herakles slew him with an arrow."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.36🏛️ Attic red-figure kylix, 410-400 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin
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"Having slaughtered a male child, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Mainalos. But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezos, and blasted Lykaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyktimos, the youngest."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 8.1🏛️ Bronze figurine from Dodona
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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame."
Hesiod, Theogony 617🏛️ Bronze sculpture of a smiting Zeus, Museo Nazionale Archeologico Taranto
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Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day."
Hesiod, Theogony 520🏛️ Laconian Black Figure Kylix, 560-550 BCE
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"[Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty Zeus" 🔥 🌈
Sophokles' Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios🏛️ Pencil drawing of a red-figure vase painting of Zeus and Ganymedes, ca. 475-425 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Ferrara
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"And Dardanos' child, #Ganymede, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings."
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis🏛️ #Ganymedes and #Zeus, wall decoration in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Source: https://www.maicar.com/GML/Ganymedes.html
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"[Constellation] Aquila. This is the eagle which is said to have snatched #Ganymede up and given him to his lover, Jove . . . And so it seems to fly above Aquarius, who, as many imagine is Ganymede."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.16🏛️ #Zeus abducting #Ganymedes in the shape of an eagle, #mosaic, 2nd-3rd century CE, House of Dionysos, Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus
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"In these lines Apollonios takes over what Ibykos said in his account of the abduction of #Ganymede [that he was carried off by a love-smitten #Zeus] in his song to Gorgias."
Ibycus, Fragment 289 (from Scholiast on Apollonios of Rhodes)🏛️ #Ganymedes, Roman copy of a 340-320 BCE bronze sculpture by Leochares, Vatican Museum
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Happy #FathersDay to all fathers and daddies ❤️
#Zeus is the father of many of the gods and many mortals liked to trace their lineage back to him."Much-honored Zeus, indestructible Zeus,
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Kronian Zeus, whose sceptre is the thunderbolt, strong-spirited,
Father of all, beginning and end of all"
Orphic Hymn 15🏛️ Zeus with his children Apollon and Artemis, 420-410 BCE, Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
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"This house is worthy of #Zeus. Not even Olympus
would blame Zeus for descending here from heaven."
On the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 9.701🏛️ Reconstruction of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, #Athens by Valentin Fiumefreddo
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympieion2_copy.jpgSee alt text for its history with tyranny!
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"Zeus, king of the gods, grants you triumph, to kill Kyknos, and to strip away his glorious armour. But another thing I will say to you now, O best of all men. After you have robbed Kyknos of the sweetness of life, you must leave him where he is, and his armour with him, and yourself keep your eye on manslaughtering Ares"
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"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos
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"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos
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"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos
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"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos
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"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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"The author of the Cypria says that #Thetis, to please #Hera, avoided union with #Zeus, at which he was enraged and swore that she should be the wife of a mortal. Hesiod also has the like account."
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 57🏛️ Thetis and Zeus by Anton Losenko
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For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Sogbo or #Sobo is a lwo (spirit, god) in Haitian #Vodou with a flaming ram as is symbol. He is the #lwo of thunder and is always worshipped and depicted with his inseparable companion #Bade, who is the lwo of wind. Together they are represented by the #Catholic image of Saints Cosmas and Damian in the syncretic Haitian Vodou.
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Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
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Meet Zeus Keraunios, #Zeus of the Thunderbolt, a Greek bronze sculpture of the King of the Gods as a muscular mature man about to hurl his iconic thunderbolt (now lost).
Dated ca. 150-50 BCE#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @histodons
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In this plaster cast of an ancient Roman relief of #Zeus-Jupiter, the King of the Gods is shown standing up, holding his thunderbolt and a scepter. A cloak is draped over the shoulder of the otherwise nude god, who appears as a mature, bearded man with a pretty braid of hair around his forehead.
Dated ca. 117–138 CE.#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @ @histodons #ancientRome
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Sculpture of #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia, Greece.
Olympia was major Panhellenic religious sanctuary of #ancientGreece, where the ancient #OlympicGames were held every four years throughout Classical #antiquity, from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @histodons
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Detail of a scene shortly after the birth of #Dionysos from the thigh of #Zeus from a #Sarcophagus depicting the Triumph of Dionysos.
Roman, ca 190 CE
🎨Photo by Lucas Livingston#DayOfZeus #Zeus #AncMed #GreekRomanArt #histodon #antiquidon #AncientRome
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Birth of #Dionysos as the Light of Zeus, 'Dios Phos'!
The vase painter of the fifth century wrote next to the childlike figure of the god emerging from the thigh of Zeus: "Dios phos" - "Light of Zeus." The person is called "Diosphos Painter" because of this artwork.
Black figure vase painting, 500-490 BCE🎨 Egisto Sani: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69716881@N02/31511476664/
#DayOfZeus #Zeus #Solstice #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #antiquidon #histodon
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Zeus Aithiops, #Zeus the Glowing or the Black. He was worshipped under this epithet on the island of #Chios. Lycophron, Cass. 537
🎨 A Young Zeus Aithiops by @hesiodic
#DayOfZeus #Mythodon #GreekMythology #Mythology #HellenicPolytheism