Erotic Mythology 💘#SuperbOwl with her mate Athena.
This ancient Greek artist created the cutest little owl but also the worst boobs I have seen in a red-figure vase painting. May #Athena bless them anyway.
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals."
#Aristophanes, Birds 563
🏛️ #Helios driving his quadriga chariot, #Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
@antiquidons
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #VasePainting
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia [Naxos], and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [#Aphrodite] and the Horae (Seasons)."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5
🏛 Red-figure #VasePainting of #Dionysos and #Ariadne
@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene [...] donned her far-gleaming raiment, and yoked her strong-necked, shining team, and drives on her long-maned horses at full speed."
Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene
🏛️ #Selene on a kylix, #Attica ca 490 BCE, Brygos Painter
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#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #VasePainting
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This cup of #Hermes and a dog was made as a pair, the other depiting Apollon. The delicately painted seated #Hermes adorns the center of the cup, feeding or playfully teasing the hound reclining at his side.
🏛 Red-figure #kylix by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, #Apulia in #MagnaGraecia
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #ancientItaly #GreekRomanArt #VasePainting
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!
Look at this #VasePainting depicting a sacrifice to #Hermes: The god stands watching the approach of a youth with a goat. The small votive pictures and the miniature herm on a shelf in the background give a clue to the setting. The goat is for sacrifice in a sanctuary, prepared by the youth to honour #Hermes with this ritual.
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt #hellenicPolytheism @mythology @antiquidons @pagan
It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!
Red-figure #VasePainting of #Ares and the #Dioskuroi in the #Gigantomachy. The god and demi-gods attack the gigantes whose backs are turned to us, a major innovation of this vase painting.
Dated to ca. 400 BCE.
📸 Jason Brooks, #Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21386822@N02/2233850064/in/album-72157603827642420/
#DayOfAres #Mythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology @pagan
Red-figure pelike, depicting the Titanomachy, c. 400 BCE
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
The goddess Luna-Selene in biga drawn by two horses in a relief on the Arch of Constantinus in #Rome. It can be seen on the short west side.
Dated 312—315 CE.
📸Sergey Sosnovskiy
http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=2119
#DayOfSelene #Luna #Selene #VasePainting #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt @his @histodons @antiquidons #ancientRome
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
The moon goddess #Selene on a #kylix. She drives a biga-chariot drawn by two winged steeds. On her head she wears a night-cap and is crowned with the disc of the #moon.
Attica, Greece, ca. 490 BCE, Brygos Painter
#DayOfSelene #Selene #VasePainting #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #histodon @antiquidons #ancientGreece
A dance party for #Satyrday, so that you may channel your inner #satyr or #maenad for your #NewYearsParty tonight 🥳
May the God of Joy, Wine, and Parties heal all your sorrows for this last night of the year! 🥂🍾
Io #Dionysos!
#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYearToAll #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #ancientGreece #vasepainting
