Erotic Mythology 🌈A delicious treat to sweeten this #Monday: the bum of Perseus, sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini ca. 1545–1554 CE.
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937
🏛️ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And Zeus, when Prometheus had taken fire and given it to men, put him in chains."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.15.2
🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes in The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, 1878 CE
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575
🏛 #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And Dardanos' child, #Ganymede, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings."
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
🏛️ #Ganymedes and #Zeus, wall decoration in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Source: https://www.maicar.com/GML/Ganymedes.html
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A late #BumDayMonday to start the work week after Whit Monday.
This painting by Jacque-Louis David, depicts Romulus' bum in the "Intervention of the Sabine Women". The Sabines, neighbours of early Rome, attack the Romans to take back the women they abducted. The women intervene, pleading the warriors on both sides to stop the bloodshed. It was painted 1796-1799 as a plea for the people to reunite after the bloodshed of the French Revolution.
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"What wonder if murderous #Eros shoots those arrows that breathe fire, and laughs bitterly with cruel eyes! Is not #Ares his mother's lover, and #Hephaistus her husband, the fire and the sword sharing her?"
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.180
🏛 #Aphrodite, Ares, Eros #neoclassical gold pendant
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"The author of the Cypria says that #Thetis, to please #Hera, avoided union with #Zeus, at which he was enraged and swore that she should be the wife of a mortal. Hesiod also has the like account."
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 57
🏛️ Thetis and Zeus by Anton Losenko
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Immediately he [#Hermes] bound upon his feet the fair sandals, golden and immortal, that carried him over the water as over the dry land of the main abreast of the wind's blast."
Homer, Iliad 24.339
🏛 Detail of #Hermes putting on his sandals by François Rude, 1827 CE, Musée du Louvre, #Paris
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
I'm planning to spend the rest of my #NewYear's week off work just like Venus-Aphrodite in this #neoclassical painting. What about you?
🏛️ Sleeping #Venus by Giorgione, dated 1510 CE, probably finished by his pupil Titian after his death. Today in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, #Dresden
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