Being mooned by Venus Victrix might be an upside of defeat...

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We all need a sweet tush on Monday, right? And who better to provide it than golden Aphrodite herself?

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When you sacrifice a cock to your god for winning a competition.

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On the move into a new year.

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📸 Photo by Herbert List in Chalkis, Greece, 1937

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Does this animal skin make me look thicc?

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Always tip the messenger.

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Venus Victrix moons the vanquished.

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How does this Roman torso get identified as #Apollo? Just look at his glutes!

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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏

"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115

🏛 #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-325 BCE). Now in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.

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