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  1. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday ๐ŸŒน

    "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 vineโ€™s child, wine."
    Anacreonta 56

    ๐Ÿ› #Aphrodite crowning a Herm of #Dionysos, Myrina 150-100 BCE

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  2. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡

    "By their songs and dancing and other talents in which they had been instructed these maidens delighted the heart of the god."
    Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

    ๐Ÿ› Dionysos & #Ariadne, 5th century Krater, National Archaeological Museum of Naples

    theoi.com/Gallery/K12.11.html

    #antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos

  3. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡

    "Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
    Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43

    ๐Ÿ› Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy

    #antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt

  4. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡

    "Dionysos made blonde-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Kronos [Zeus] made her deathless and unageing for him."
    Hesiod, Theogony 947

    Bonus #FannyFriday of beautiful #Ariadne because I missed it yesterday. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

    ๐Ÿ› Dionysos and Ariadne - Roman Fresco 1โ€“79 CE - Getty Museum

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos

  5. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡

    "#Bacchus [Dionysos] himself, grape-bunches garlanding his brow, brandished a spear that vine-leaves twined, and at his feet fierce spotted panthers lay, tigers and lynxes too."
    #Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.572

    ๐Ÿ› Relief of #Dionysos, #Ariadne & #Satyr

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday