Female presents: HYSTERIA @ Bossa Nova Civic Club - 11 Aug feat. Zeigler, maenad, Niyah West + more
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"Argaeus, whose force was very small, directed the Macedonian young women, as the enemy advanced, to show themselves from mount Ereboea. They accordingly did so; and in a numerous body they poured down from the mountain, their faces covered by wreaths, and brandishing their thyrsi instead of spears."
Polyaenus 4.1
π #Maenad on silver plaque, 1st century CE
Are the hints that he wants to spit-roast her too obvious?
#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt
@antiquidons @phistorians
(Red-figure bell krater showing a #satyr and a #maenad making a sacrifice to Herakles)
Euoi! Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"The Satyrs have the roundrattling tomtom from your patron Dionysos. Even the mountainranging Bassarides [maenads] ride on the backs of lions."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.113
π Terracotta relief of a dancing #Maenad and #Satyr with the infant #Dionysos
I'm going to the theatre tonight, so I'm sharing the mons veneris of a #maenad for #FannyFriday today, who belongs to the joyful retinue of the God of Theatre himself, Dionysos.
She is accompanied by a satyr friend who may have just gotten the brush-off.
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"Some say that because he once gave a judgment against Dionysos, #Midas was changed into an ass; or because he wronged the companions of Dionysos, #Dionysos in anger forced him to have ass's ears."
Suidas s.v. Midas
π Dionysos and #Maenad, 62β79 CE, Fresco from #Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
π #Dionysos, a #Maenad, and #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T50.3.html
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#GreekRomanArt #mythology #SatyrDay
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
Dionysos Liknites, βDionysos of the Winnowing-fanβ is an epithet of #Dionysos because at birth he is said to have been laid on a winnowing-fan. Placing newborn children in winnowing-fans is βan omen of wealth and fruitfulnessβ.
Hermes, too, was "laid in swaddling-bands on the winnowing fan".
ποΈ Terracotta relief of a dancing #Maenad and #Satyr with baby #Bacchus (Dionysos)
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