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  1. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    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!

    πŸ› #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

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

    "[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

    πŸ› #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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

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

    "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

    πŸ› #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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

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

    "[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 : β€˜Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

    πŸ› Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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

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

    "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

    πŸ› #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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

  6. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "You [#Dionysos] hold in thrall the Orient, even those remotest lands where Ganges waters dusky India."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 20

    πŸ› Epiphany of Dionysos #mosaic, from the Villa of Dionysos, 2nd century CE in Dion, Greece

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

  7. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "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

    πŸ› Detail from an Ionian black-figure clay vase, about 530 BCE, Niarchos Collection, #Athens

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  8. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "#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

    πŸ› Relief of #Dionysos, #Ariadne & #Satyr

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  9. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "[#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

    πŸ› Roman marble sarcophagus depicting the birth of #Dionysos, possibly for a child, dated 150-160 CE

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  10. Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "[Silenos] great nurse of Bakkhos"
    Orphic Hymn 54 to Silenos

    πŸ› #Silenos carries baby #Dionysos, his foster son, 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  11. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "You, #Bacchus [Dionysos], from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, you who frightens tigers with your vine-clad spear, and with a turban binds your horned head."
    Seneca, Phaedra 753

    πŸ› #Dionysos with #Ampelos and satyr, Mosaico de Baco, 3rd century CE Museo ArqueolΓ³gico de #Sevilla

    @antiquidons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday #mlm #gay

  12. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "Some say that because he once gave a judgment against Dionysos, #Midas was changed into an ass; or because he wronged the companions of Dionysos, #Dionysos in anger forced him to have ass's ears."
    Suidas s.v. Midas

    πŸ› Dionysos and #Maenad, 62–79 CE, Fresco from #Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

    @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  13. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "Beardless #Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus [Dionysos] on Ismarian hills. He trusted him with a vine hanging from the leaves of an elm; it is now named for the boy. The reckless youth fell picking gaudy grapes on a branch. Liber [#Dionysos] lifted the lost boy to the stars."
    #Ovid, Fasti 3.407

    πŸ› Cameo of Dionysos and a #Satyr, 1st century CE

    @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday

  14. i love #caturday but also love all #pets. more #raturday. maybe you could sneak in any of your rodent guys. is there #baturday for our #scicomm #photography people?? #gnaturday for the bug guys? #sabirday for the birders? and #satyrday for, wait, okay, i got carried away. but if you have a satyr, please show me.

    it's dies saturni, and saturn is the god of genesis and #agriculture. what's more pets than that? i love farm #animals also.

    #aetadays #diessaturni

  15. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    "He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, 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

    πŸ› #Dionysos, a #Maenad, and #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE
    theoi.com/Gallery/T50.3.html

    @antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
    #GreekRomanArt #mythology #SatyrDay

  16. It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡

    #Dionysos, #Silenos and #Maenads are celebrating the weekend in this Apulian vase painting.

    πŸ›οΈ Krater with red-figure vase painting, dated 380-370 BCE. Today in the MusΓ©e d’Art et d’Histoire in #Geneva.

    #GreekRomanArt #Satyrday #ancientGreece @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

  17. A dance party for #Satyrday, so that you may channel your inner #satyr or #maenad for your #NewYearsParty tonight πŸ₯³
    May the God of Joy, Wine, and Parties heal all your sorrows for this last night of the year! πŸ₯‚πŸΎ
    Io #Dionysos!

    #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYearToAll #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #ancientGreece #vasepainting

  18. Franz Stuck, "Dissonance", 1910

    #FranzStuck, #FranzVonStuck, #Dissonance, #faun, #PanFlute, #year1910, #SatyrDay

    I don't know whether in these days paintings like this one need to be marked "sensitive". Isn't it that such kind of marking makes this painting more "sensitive" than it is?

    (Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)