It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Yesterday was the start of the #Lenaia, a festival dedicated to the god #Dionysos Lênaios that celebrated both his release from Zeus's thigh and his emergence from the Underworld. Its official name was "Dionysia at the Lenaion", a theatre and sanctuary in #Athens, where the festival dramas, both tragic and comic, were staged.

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It's the #DayOfDionysos at Erotic Mythology!

According to some, December or January are the months in which #Dionysos was born from Zeus' thigh. Most of his festivals take place in #winter too, like the Rural #Dionysia, #Haloa, and #Lenaia.
Here, baby Dionysos is held by his foster father #Silenos.

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