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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-24 14:47:20
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Have 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

Red-figure vase painting of Achilles, depicted as a beardless young man, bandaging Patroclus, who is depicted as a mature bearded man. Both are still in full armour, wearing helmet, cuirass (to protect the torso) and pteryges, the "leather skirt" so iconic in Greek armour. Patroclus is sitting with spread legs, exposing his flaccid penis, giving the scene an erotic element.