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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

#SatyrDay shout-out to @Drub for this beautiful satyr boy:

https://hidden.pics/p/Drub/846058954394210517

#SatyrDay shout-out to @Drub for this beautiful satyr boy:

https://hidden.pics/p/Drub/846058954394210517

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[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

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Silenos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Silenos #Satyrday

It's #Satyrday and Pan celebrates with his friends 🥳

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It's #Satyrday and Pan celebrates with his friends 🥳

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Be a true friend and see your buddy home safely when they had too much to drink, even when they're a god 🙏

🏛️ #Mosaic, detail of the #satyr Skirtos, Poseidon Villa, 3rd century CE, #Zeugma

#Satyrday #GreekRomanArt #MosaicMonday

Be a true friend and see your buddy home safely when they had too much to drink, even when they're a god 🙏

🏛️ #Mosaic, detail of the #satyr Skirtos, Poseidon Villa, 3rd century CE, #Zeugma

#Satyrday #GreekRomanArt #MosaicMonday

"Like what you see? That's 5 obols for one ride."

#PhallusThursday
#Satyrday

@antiquidons @phistorians #GreekRomanArt #Pompeii

"Like what you see? That's 5 obols for one ride."

#PhallusThursday
#Satyrday

@antiquidons @phistorians #GreekRomanArt #Pompeii

Happy #Satyrday 😏

Unfortunately, jamming with Apollo can end up being deadly...

Apollon and Marsyas, National Archaeological Museum Athens, 330-20 BCE

@antiquidons #GreekRomanArt

Happy #Satyrday 😏

Unfortunately, jamming with Apollo can end up being deadly...

Apollon and Marsyas, National Archaeological Museum Athens, 330-20 BCE

@antiquidons #GreekRomanArt

Portrait of a saytr who watches the party going on in the rest of the painting with a gentle eye. His rounded nose and delicate eyes give him a youthful, whimsical face with satyr donkey ears and thick eyebrows.

#Satyrday #GreekRomanArt
@antiquidons

Source:
http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/greek-vase-featuring-satyrs/

Portrait of a saytr who watches the party going on in the rest of the painting with a gentle eye. His rounded nose and delicate eyes give him a youthful, whimsical face with satyr donkey ears and thick eyebrows.

#Satyrday #GreekRomanArt
@antiquidons

Source:
http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/greek-vase-featuring-satyrs/

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"#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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"#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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"The Nymphs of Nysa were given his charge and kept him hidden away within their caves, and nourished him on milk. Down on earth as destiny ordained these things took place, and Bacchus, baby twice born, was cradled safe and sound."
Ovid

🏛 Dionysos with Nysa & #satyr , relief panel from the Sebasteion, ca second quarter of the first century CE, Aphrodisias, Aphrodisias Museum

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"The Nymphs of Nysa were given his charge and kept him hidden away within their caves, and nourished him on milk. Down on earth as destiny ordained these things took place, and Bacchus, baby twice born, was cradled safe and sound."
Ovid

🏛 Dionysos with Nysa & #satyr , relief panel from the Sebasteion, ca second quarter of the first century CE, Aphrodisias, Aphrodisias Museum

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/39856/satyr-with-child-dionysus/

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/39856/satyr-with-child-dionysus/

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Euoi! Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Euoi! Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"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

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday