It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

#antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3

🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, Attic red figure vase painting

#mythology #GreekRomanArt #history #Ganymede

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c

🏛 #Hermes weighing souls, Athenian red-figure amphora from Nola, ca 460 BCE, by the Nikon Painter

#mythology #antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #GreekRomanArt #history

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️

"Ares went with the Trojans. Who then was the first and who the last that they slaughtered, Hektor, Priamos' son, and Ares armed with brass?"
Homer, Iliad 5.699

🏛 Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE

#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582

🏛️ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

#antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37

🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, 325–330 CE, Antakya or Antiochia

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #MosaicMonday

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.72.4

🏛️ #Zeus & #Hera votive relief, 4th century BCE

#mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

King Midas regrets his wish...

#PhallusThursday

#GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @phistorians

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"When Mercurius first made the lyre on Mount Cyllene . . . Apollo took the lyre, and is said to have taught Orpheus on it, and after he himself had invented the cithara, he gave the lyre to Orpheus."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7

🏛 #Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydike, marble relief, 27 BCE – 14 AD, Torre del Greco (Naples)

#mythology #antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #GreekRomanArt #history

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️

"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: ‘Why once more, you dogfly, have you stirred up trouble among the gods with the blast of your blown fury, and the pride of your heart driving you?’"
Homer, Iliad 21.391

🏛 Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE

📸 La Fuente Egeria
flickriver.com/photos/27906589…

#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares

Daddy got back.

#BumDayMonday

#GreekRomanArt

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179

🏛️ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"By their songs and dancing and other talents in which they had been instructed these maidens delighted the heart of the god."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 Dionysos & #Ariadne, 5th century Krater, National Archaeological Museum of Naples

theoi.com/Gallery/K12.11.html

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Aphrodite riding on a goose, Greek sculpture, 4th century BCE, MFA

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14

🏛️ #Jupiter, 1st century CE, Tivoli

#Zeus #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"O Hermes, lord of games (enagônios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212

🏛 #Hermes and youth, red-figure vase painting

#mythology #antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #GreekRomanArt #history

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️

"Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)

🏛 Red-figure vase painting

#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #ancientGreece