@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"After her came grey wolves, fawning on her, and grim-eyed lions, and bears, and fleet leopards, ravenous for deer: and she was glad in heart to see them, and put desire in their breasts, so that they all mated, two together."
Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 68
🏛 Greek medallion, 3rd century BCE, Amrit in Syria.
@Migurski@mastodon.social1989 Sun Sparcstation Via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/114327869596697912
https://migurski.tumblr.co…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [
@einzigartiger@chaos.socialDie Saison der Drogendealer beginnt ja am Montag wieder. Wo bekommt man denn den Guten Stoff (aka Covid-Impfung) ohne große Diskussionen in #Dresden? Gerne auch mit einer Influenza-Beigabe.
Die City-Apotheke scheint ja wieder mit dabei zu sein (Mittwochs ab 1.10.).
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.infoTomaten sind doch echt Unkraut. 2x durch Sturm abgeknickt, ne Woche wegen technischem fsckup kein Wasser bekommen, nie wirklich zurückgeschnitten und außer etwas Endfäule (aka: Stress wegen zu wenig Wasser) trotzdem angesetzt. Und das das Zeug im Gegensatz zu den Wasserbomben aus dem Handel sogar nach Tomate schmecken sollte klar sein.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
@Jackobli@mastodon.socialKleines Drama bei den nebenan sitzenden Amis, der Lokführer bremste kurz nach dem Wankdorf kräftig.
Aka «The Gatorade massacre», der Wagen riecht jetzt etwas kräftig. 😬
#MeFàStM
https://mastodon.social/@Jac…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"From many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of Ares, destruction double-armed, a gory pair."
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 638
🏛 Roman bronze sculpture, 201-300 CE
@… @…
@arXiv_mathNT_bot@mastoxiv.pageFibonacci sequences in $\mathbb F_p$
Menny Aka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08016 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08016 …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7
🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
Italic / Etrusc…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialThe never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgLand-Swapping? Hm, so Putin will take back Alaska as the Americans make no good use of it, and then some, aka Krim and Donezk?
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115010886169191980
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo yes, BlueSky finally has bookmarks.
Before this feature came out, people had simply been replying to posts with a 📌 emoji and there was a dedicated feed where you could view your 📌’ed posts.
In an example of how to roll stuff out, someone made an importing tool that either moved OR copied your 📌 posts to bookmarks (saved posts)
VERY well done.
@ralphstark@todon.nlUnerträglicher Stil, einen versuchten Femizid als "ob aus Liebe oder Hass" zu beschreiben.
An den Waffenschein aka Führerschein müssen viel höhere Bedingungen geknüpft werden.
https://www.radiobonn.de/artikel/siegburger-draengt…
@muz4now@mastodon.worldOur Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart
https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/our-mind-on-music-podcast-interview-with-stan-stewart-aka-stanley-g-of-muz4now/
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aka Kelzz:
🎵 Memories
#NowPlaying #AkaKelzz
https://akakelzz.bandcamp.com/track/memories
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VhET892wU8tKC33Y9OfdB
Schon gewusst❓
Wenn Du einen Beitrag des Bots ⭐ FAVORISIERST, erfährt das nur der Bot - nicht Deine FollowerInnen.
Wenn Du einen Song weitererempfehlen möchtest, dann 🔁 TEILE ihn❗
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialWeleda, a company that sells crackpot "medicines" based on #Steiner (aka #Waldorf) ideas traded happily with Nazi regime #anthroposophy
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Pasiphaë, daughter of Sol and wife of Minos, for several years did not make offerings to the goddess #Venus. Because of this Venus inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 40
🏛 Campana plaque, 50 BCE - 50 CE
@…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialToday I drafted a writeup on multicall binaries:
https://github.com/orangecms/multicall/
Feedback is welcome, any additional pointers etc. - feel free to open issues/PRs or reply right here. :)
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
John Angaiak:
🎵 Akʼa Tamaani
#JohnAngaiak
https://johnangaiak.bandcamp.com/track/aka-tamaani
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oSl41TDC4c4nZsvxVG7rG
@keen456@infosec.exchangeThis is a fascinating blog on #scanning some #French #CD #magazines and a bit of history on the strange…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am, I believe, starting to see the impact of the crazy Trump Sales Tax (aka "tariffs").
Several of my company's products are based on small computers that are made in China.
These are becoming unavailable here in the US. And I have not yet found any US based sources. (The boxes I use need to be small - on par with a NUC-like platform, X86_64 [i5 or better], with at least three 2.5Gbit RJ45 Ethernets, a pair of SFP sockets, and HDMI USB for keyboard/mouse/video.…
@lilmikesf@c.im#Bandmates from defunct 80's super group still at loggerheads : Sting ( aka Gordon Sumner) sued by Andy Summers and #StewartCopeland for $2 million dollars in song arrangement royalties.
New details emerge as platinum plus Police bassist's attorneys claim the 73 yr old more likely overpaid ex ban…
@xtaran@chaos.social#WHY2025 ist fast noch schlimmer als andere Events: Selbst wenn man grade im eigenen Wohnmobil auf dem Weg zur Dusche ist, trifft man Leute (aka es klopft an der Wohnmobiltüre) und *flupps* ist wieder 'ne halbe Stunde oder so vorbei. 😉 So muss Camp!
Und jetzt sollte ich wirklich mal Richtung Dusche und dann wieder unter die Leute. 😇
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Dynamic, Self-balancing k-d Tree
Russell A. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08148…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Troy Hunt: That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")«
🧟 #password
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyAbout Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@cdarwin@c.imProfCiara talks with CREW's Donald Sherman about seeking legal and constitutional consequences for the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol using the 14th Amendment's Section 3 -- aka the Disqualification Clause
https://m.soundcloud.com/profciara/democracy-destiny-…
@bourgwick@heads.socialthe grateful dead essays blog returns with a deep reconstruction of the legendary may 2nd, 1970 acoustic/electric marathon in binghamton, aka dick's picks 8, by the righteous historian light into ashes. https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2025/07/may-2-1970-harpur…
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… @… aka @… 😎
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialGabriella DeGasperis (aka @GabbyGolfGirl) goes head-to-head with the greatest shooter of all time, NBA Superstar Stephen Curry.
▶️ Steph Curry's 1st Ever 1v1 Golf Match On YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Pw7x9uDQw&si=xXqopJHeR9zLoqqe
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThere's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka https://thi.ng/pixel-flow
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pagePrivacy-preserving authentication for military 5G networks
I. D. Lutz, A. M. Hill, M. C. Valenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01470 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…
@vyskocilm@witter.czhttps://antonz.org/be/ aka https://github.com/nalgeon/be seems to be a great middleground between t.Fatal boilerpl…
@marcel@waldvogel.familySome programming wisdom from 40 years ago. Exciting to see how many of them are still important advice today.
(aka: @… 's aphorism collection 🦆)
https://
@al3x@hachyderm.ioMost of the largest tech corporations have done layoffs related to AI (aka “AI layoffs”).
I have read Satya Nadela’s message. I don’t know if other CEOs have published similar messages
I do not understand the connection though. 1) These companies had good financial results lately; 2) The people being laid off are not replaced by AI; 3) The layoffs won’t help further AI capex investments in any significant way.
What is it then?
@exil_inselette@norden.socialIch bin da was Großem auf der Spur: Die, die #Gendersprache aka #gendergerechteSprache verbieten, sind immer die, die's nicht hinkriegen. Ich hab noch nie jemanden gegen #gendersensibleSprache
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙
"Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373
🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt,
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- One Leg One Eye’s Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker invites One Leg One Eye - aka Ian Lynch from Lankum - to the Unclassified Listening Chair to select a track that transports him elsewhere.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f76m
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
AKA:
🎵 Do What you Like
#AKA
https://nowagainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/do-what-you-like
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deDürr (FDP) promoted – ebenso wie generell FDP und Union – als Lösung für die Senkung des CO₂-Ausstoßes „Emissionshandel aka Marktwirtschaft“.
Können wir machen.
Das 1,5°-Ziel einhalten heißt ab sofort kein zusätzliches CO₂ mehr ausstoßen, d.h. CO₂-Preis − ∞. Auch für¹ „deutlich unter 2°“ müßte der Preis jetzt schon höher sein und alle Bereiche einschließen.
Doch nehmen wir einfach nur den aktuell beschlossenem EU-Emissionshandel: Würden die Parteien uns rechtsverbindlich…
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeThe registry keys referenced in this article are good things to check for in your environment. There aren’t many legitimate uses for macros and VBA in Outlook and you should ensure that functionality is disabled and stays that way.
#cybersecurity
From: @…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialThe never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@Defiance@sfba.socialThis band Ultra Lights are often described as "90s slacker rock". To my ears, upon hearing this, I thought it was a new Soft Pack (aka Muslims) album lol
https://www.ultralightsband.com/
@ralphstark@todon.nlApropos Prioritäten so wichtig @… heute morgen Gabi spaziert um 7:20 durch die Unterführung "Kichererbse" am Hauptbahnhof, spaziert an einer Stolperfalle aka umgefallenen Tier/Dott-Roller vorbei. Sie mussten sich schon sehr anstrengen den nicht zu sehen.
Den Obdachlosen der neben dem Eingang der deutschen Bank schlief, den den haben sie …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"The Kyprian Queen [Aphrodite] brooded above their souls, that olden love might be renewed, and heart-ache chased away."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 14.160
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene, 1-2nd century CE, Musée Royal de Mariemont
@…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis from IPPR on the greatly increased costs of UK government debt servicing seems reasonable from IPPR.
1) Tax the big 4 banks on the windfall profits that the government is, effectively, funding.
2) Slow down the QE buy-back.
I would also think that the government/bank could, as an exceptional measure, buy back some of the long term gilts using 'monetary financing' aka 'printing money'.
Not something to be done willy-nilly, but here it could get govt ou…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageKey-Augmented Neural Triggers for Knowledge Sharing
Alex Wolf, Marco Edoardo Palma, Pooja Rani, Harald C. Gall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03340 https://arx…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#NowPlaying Guided by Julian Cope’s “The Modern Antiquarian” and Aurbrey Burl’s “A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain”, Llyn Y Cwn aka Ben Powell makes abyssal dark ambient soundscapes with site-specific field recordings from Wales and beyond. https://…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares [War], human blood."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 242
🏛 Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE
#DayOfAres
@muz4now@mastodon.worldYes, it’s BandCamp Friday! Thanks for supporting music makers like me.
#BandcampFriday https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAt Microsoft, we’re advancing quantum computing at every level. With our newly developed family of 4D geometric codes, and our co-designed quantum work with Atom Computing
, we’re getting closer to making large-scale quantum computing a reality. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AQBlogQEC
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Enough,’ said she, ‘I'll never move till you are forced away!’ ‘A bargain!’ cried the god and with his magic wand, opened the door. [...] She did not try to speak, nor, had she tried, was way still left for words. Her t…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyAbout Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@cdarwin@c.imThe plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-25/the-plague-reappeared-in-california
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialToday I'm making Chongqing style noodles, aka xiao mian (重庆小面) at @…. I am preparing a vegan and gluten free, somewhat purist variant. Hope everyone will like it. 🍜
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"She turned her round eyes delighted in all directions; only the boars she would not watch in their pleasures, for being a prophet she knew, that in the shape of a wild boar, #Ares with jagged tusk and spitting deadly poison was destined to weave fate for Adonis in jealous madness."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.1
🎨 F…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aka Kelzz:
🎵 Memories
#NowPlaying #AkaKelzz
https://akakelzz.bandcamp.com/track/memories
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VhET892wU8tKC33Y9OfdB
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialIn order to enable hotpatch updates for your Windows 11 devices, you'll need to first enable virtualization-based security (VBS) on the targeted devices. Not sure how?
💡 Get tips: https://aka.ms/EnableVBSatScale
▶️ Watch a demo:
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave 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
🏛 Aphrodite #mosaic from Bouleuterion, 2nd century CE
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The True Loves:
🎵 Mary Pop Poppins
#TheTrueLoves
https://thetrueloves.bandcamp.com/track/mary-pop-poppins-aka-m-p-poppins
https://open.spotify.com/track/0y0cJV3NZaSmBRvGyegP7H
@muz4now@mastodon.worldMusician YATTA on going towards the unknown https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-yatta-on-going-towards-…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"According to Mimnermos, because Aphrodite had been wounded by Diomedes she caused [his wife] Aigialeia to go to bed with many lovers and to be loved by Kometes, the son of Sthenelos. And when Diomedes arrived in Argos she plotted against him."
Mimnermus, Fragment 22
🏛 Aphrodite with the Erotes, 2nd - early 1st century BCE
@…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyAbout Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@rmdes@mstdn.socialThe never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@ralphstark@todon.nlIch habe gerade Fußballbedingt den Brennpunkt der @… gesehen.
Der Informationsgehalt, kann sein das Wort Klimawandel, oder gar Klimakatastrophe fiel kein einziges Mal, war hm Be- und irgendwas mit sch....
Eigentlich sollte spätestens jetzt aka 40°C, die Informationen mit wissenschaftlich anerkannten Lösungsansätzen gespickt sein.
WIR MÜSSEN JETZT …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and keep me safe 💙
"Zeus himself . . . commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord . . . over dogs and all the herds and flocks."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Herm…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyAbout Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The space of the continents did bold Ares watch, sitting armed on the high top of Thrakian Haimos, and his horses were stalled by the seven-chambered cave of Boreas. And the other kept watch over the far-flung islands."
Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 51
🏛 Gemstone engraving
@…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social8:00 AM PT - August 27 - Get tips, insights, and support from the teams building the latest capabilities for Windows 365!
Add this event to your calendar, then post your questions in advance or during the live AMA:
https://aka.ms/AMA/Windows365
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"[Is] Kypris [Aphrodite], [again] moving some woman of Akhaia to follow after those Trojans she loves to hopelessly, laying hold on the fair dresses of the Akhaian women."
Homer, Iliad 5.422
🏛 Aphrodite of Paestum figurine
📸 Francesco Valletta and Giovanni Grippo
@…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Kypris [Aphrodite] shines out from the clam sea. Over the silver on dancing dolphins ride guileful Eros and laughing Himeros (Desire), and the chorus of bow-backed fish plunging in the waves sports with Paphia where she swims."
Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite
🏛 Venus, Roman copy of a Greek original, with a nice mons veneris for
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
@…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94
🏛 #Aphrodite
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"And he [Hermes] called this woman Pandora (All-Gifts), because all they who dwelt on Olympos gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread."
Hesiod, Works & Days
🏛 Attic red-figure krater, archaic period
@… @…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The Eleans said that Pelops was the first to found a temple of #Hermes in Peloponnesos and to sacrifice to the god, his purpos…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
Welcome to #WrathMonth:
"Now as the high-hearted Trojans watched [the death of two allies] [. . .] the anger in all of them was stirred [by Ares]."
Homer, Iliad 5. 27
🏛 Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology,
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"It was Aphrodite who, because of Adonis whom both she and Herakles loved, taught Nessos the centaur the trap with which to snare Herakles."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2
🏛 Herakles sacrificing a bull to Aphrodite by Piringer after an ancient Greek original
@…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave 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
🏛 Detail of #Venus in the Planetarium mosaic
📸 Daniel Gonzšlez Acuñ…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hera demanded the cow [Io] from Zeus, and assigned Argos Panoptes as its guard [...] Zeus instructed Hermes to steal her, and Hermes, unable to sneak her out because Hierax had told on him, killed Argos with a stone. From t…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Cadmus along with Harmonia his wife, daughter of Venus and Mars, after their children had been killed, were turned into snakes in the region of Illyria by the wrath of Mars, because Cadmus had slain the Dracon."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 6
🏛️ Chalcidian Black Figure Amphora, ca 560 - 550 BCE
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Among them sports Ares and keen-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes], while Apollon plays his lyre."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 190
🏛 Altar relief depicting Aphrodite, Ares, Apollon, Hera, Zeus, and Hermes
@… @…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"It is said, following the resentment of Aphrodite against Menelaos who had arranged the abduction of Helene: he had promised a hecatomb to Aphrodite as the price of the marriage, and didn't offer it."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 4
🏛 Venus of Arles, Hymettus marble, Roman artwork, end of the 1st century BCE
@…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Artemis to please Hera shot the bear. Zeus sent Hermes with orders to save the child [Arkas] that Kallisto bore in her womb."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.6
🏛️ Hermes bronze medal
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The Sacred Band [of Thebes], we are told, was first formed by Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved." 🌈
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives
🏛 Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"My own opinion is that Hermes gave Amphion these gifts, both the [magical] lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him.
And the chlamys he wears, perhaps that also came from
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Of Kythereia [Aphrodite], born in Kypros, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Kypros; grant me a cheerful song."
Homeric Hymn 10
🏛 Aphrodite votive relief, 4th century BCE
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Agraulos and Ares had a daughter Alkippe. As Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon and a nymph named Eurtye, was trying to rape Alkippe, Ares caught him at it and slew him."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.180
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and make it swift 💙
"Meanwhile the Guide Argeiphontes [Hermes], addressed Leto: ‘Leto, I will not fight with you; since it is a hard thing to come to blows with the…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first the lay together secretly in the dwelling of Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded goddess and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos."
Homer, Odyssey 8.267
🏛 Tetrassarion coin dated 162-163 CE
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Euhemerus says that Venus first established the constellations and taught Mercurius."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.42
🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, Spain
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
The Amazons are #Ares' daughters
"The Gargarians [...] have intercourse with them for the sake of begetting children, doing this in secrecy and darkness, any Gargarian at random with any Amazon; and after making them pregnant they send them away; and the females that are born are retained by the
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hermes, beloved of Polydeukes, one of the Dioskouroi, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse."
Ptolemaios Chennos, New History
🏛️ Hermes, Polydeukes, Satyr or Silenos, Italic Stamnos, 400–350 BCE
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"For his wedding with Juno, Jupiter ordered Mercurius to invite all the gods, humans and the animals. Everyone invited by Mercurius came, except for Chelone who didn't deign to be there, mocking the wedding. When Mercuri…
