What a great day to learn about my favorite classical hero: #Medea
https://youtu.be/b7WH30_8vos
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What a great day to learn about my favorite classical hero: #Medea
https://youtu.be/b7WH30_8vos
#histodons #histodon #mythodon #greece #ClassicalGreece #march8 #internationalwomensday
A few days ago I stated that #Artemis and #Persephone were my favorite goddesses.
That's only partly correct, they're my favorite Greek ones.
My favorite God of all time is #Ishtar
#mythology #mythodon
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday đč
Improve your day by #Aphrodite riding a goose, immortalised on a terracotta disk by an #ancientGreek artist in the 4th century BCE.
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #GreekGods #mythology @mythology @antiquidons @histodons #ancientHistory #ancientGreece #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon #GreekRomanArt
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday
Meet Zeus Keraunios, #Zeus of the Thunderbolt, a Greek bronze sculpture of the King of the Gods as a muscular mature man about to hurl his iconic thunderbolt (now lost).
Dated ca. 150-50 BCE
#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @histodons
It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!
Red-figure pottery with #Ares motif, as the Pergamon Museum in Berlin puts it. Whose hand is he holding? Is it maybe #Aphrodite being led to bed by Ares, as recounted in the #Odyssey?
"He [Ares] took her hand and spoke thus to her: 'Come, my darling; let us go to bed and take our delight together.'"
#DayOfAres #GreekMythology #Mythodon @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #GreekRomanArt @histodons
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday đč
Marble votive relief showing #Aphrodite with her devotees.
Dated to 4th century BCE.
What would you ask of the Goddess of Love?
#DayOfAphrodite #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #GreekRomanArt @histodons #HellenicPolytheism #HellenicPaganism
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday
In this plaster cast of an ancient Roman relief of #Zeus-Jupiter, the King of the Gods is shown standing up, holding his thunderbolt and a scepter. A cloak is draped over the shoulder of the otherwise nude god, who appears as a mature, bearded man with a pretty braid of hair around his forehead.
Dated ca. 117â138 CE.
#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @ @histodons #ancientRome
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday!
Sculpture of #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia, Greece.
Olympia was major Panhellenic religious sanctuary of #ancientGreece, where the ancient #OlympicGames were held every four years throughout Classical #antiquity, from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.
#DayOfZeus #antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #histodons #mythodon @antiquidons @histodons
It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!
Marble bust of #Ares after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE.
The god is depicted as a beardless youth with an elaborate helmet, the crest of which is resting on the back of a #sphinx.
#DayOfAres #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon @ @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #AncMed #GreekRomanArt @histodons