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"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

🏛 Dionysos & #Ariadne, 5th century Krater, National Archaeological Museum of Naples

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

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

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"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. 👌

🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne - Roman Fresco 1–79 CE - Getty Museum

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"#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

🏛 Relief of #Dionysos, #Ariadne & #Satyr

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