#dionysos — Public Fediverse posts
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Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy
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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra
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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, 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🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos
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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens
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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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"You [#Dionysos] hold in thrall the Orient, even those remotest lands where Ganges waters dusky India."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 20🏛 Epiphany of Dionysos #mosaic, from the Villa of Dionysos, 2nd century CE in Dion, Greece
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Put vines on it for me with bunches of grapes on them [. . .] the #Satyrs laughing, Erotes (Loves) all in gold, Kythere [Aphrodite] laughing together with handsome Lyaios [#Dionysos], #Eros and #Aphrodite."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 4🏛 Detail from an Ionian black-figure clay vase, about 530 BCE, Niarchos Collection, #Athens
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"Chorus of Bakkhai: From the land of Asia, having left sacred Tmolos, I am swift to perform for Bromios . . . celebrating the god #Bakkhos . . . Blessed is he who, being fortunate and knowing the rites of the gods."
#Euripides, Bacchae 70🏛 #Dionysos, Maenad, and Satyrs, red-figured nestoris wine jar, 380-360 BCE
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[#Silenos] great nurse of #Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiads and Bacchae who bear ivy, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenos🏛 Roman marble sarcophagus depicting the birth of #Dionysos, possibly for a child, dated 150-160 CE
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"Satyrs also, it is reported, were carried about by him [Dionysos] in his company and afforded the god great delight and pleasure in connection with their dancings and their goat-songs."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.5.3🏛 #Satyr with Child #Dionysos, Greek marble sculpture, 2nd century BCE
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"Listen to Pan, how he seems to be hymning #Dionysos on the crests of Kithairon, as he dances an Euian fling. And Kithairon in the form of a man laments the woes soon to occur on his slopes, and he wears an ivy crown aslant on his head"
Philostratus, Imagines 1.14🏛 '#Satyr and little #Bacchus', 2nd century CE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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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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"To escape the midday lash of #Helios (the Sun) moving on high, he [#Dionysos] cleansed his body in the stream of the Meionian River bubbling gently [...] Playful Satyrs lifted their heels in air, and tumbled plunging headover into the river."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 10.142🏛 #Satyr and #Bacchus as a child, glass cameo, first half of the 1st century CE, Italy
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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as #Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Kallimachos, Aitia Fragment 2🏛 Silver libation bowl with a low-relief of chariots with #Ares, #Athena, #Herakles and #Dionysos. Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE.