It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️
"Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first they lay together secretly in the dwelling of #Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos."
Homer, #Odyssey 8.267
🏛 #Ares and #Aphrodite's courtship with #Erotes, 3rd century #Roman #mosaic
It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Helios, the myth tells us [...] caused the water which had overflowed it [the island of Rhodes] to disappear. But the true explanation is that [...] the island was still like mud and soft, Helios dried up the larger part of its wetness and filled the land with living creatures."
🎨 Red-figure vase painting of #Helios in a chariot drawn by two #Erotes.
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #mythology @antiquidons @mythology