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"#Bacchus on hills the fair Adonis saw,
And ravished him, and reaped a wondrous joy."
Plutarch, Quaestiones convivales 4.5.3
🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, Archaeological Museum in Thessalonica, Greece

I collected a list of characters who experience sex change in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Siproites, a hunter who saw the goddess #Artemis naked while she was bathing and was then transformed into a woman:

Sex Change in Greek Mythology
Find out which Greek and Roman myths feature sex change!

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"Dionysos caused Lykourgos to go mad. In this state, thinking he was cutting a vine-branch, Lykourgos killed his son Dryas by cutting off his arms and legs with an axe. Then he regained his senses."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 34-35
🏛 The Lycurgus Cup, made from dichroic glass, which changes colour w…

Sex change happens quite a few time in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. I collected a list of characters whose sex is changed, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Mestra, who got the ability to shape-shift from her ex lover Poseidon and went on to marry Autolykos, a son of Hermes with the ability to change the look of the things he stole. What a power coupl…

Sex Change in Greek Mythology
Find out which Greek and Roman myths feature sex change!

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"Blessed Bakkhos, god of wine . . . Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care augments the fruit that banishes despair."
Orphic Hymn 50
🏛 Roman mosaic of #Bacchus giving a libation, National Museum of Beirut…

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"Dionysos was loved by Chiron, from whom he learnt the songs and dances, and the Bacchic rites and initiations."
Ptolemaios Chennos
🏛 Illustration of #Chiron by Ezio Anichini, photographed by Alexis Orloff

The Kharites or Graces have the most beautiful tush!
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

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"[Pentheus] was seen by the Maenads more than he saw them, for sitting on high he was all but apparent, and the stranger was no longer anywhere to be seen when a voice, #Dionysos as I guess, cried out from the air: ‘Young wom…

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"Lord [Dionysos], with whom Eros the subduer and the blue-eyed Nymphs, and radiant Aphrodite play, as you haunt the lofty mountain peaks."
Anacreon, Fragment 357
🏛 #Dionysos on a chariot pulled by Maenads, Cam…

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid

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"Proitos and Stheneboia had Lysippe, Iphinoe & Iphianassa. When these three had grown up, they went mad, as Hesiod says, because they didn't accept the mystic rites of #Dionysos [...] In their maddened state they ramb…

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"The offspring of Semele discovered a match to it, the liquid drink of the grape, and introduced it to mortals. It releases wretched mortals from grief whenever they are filled with the stream of the vine, and gives them sleep, a means of forgetting their daily troubles."
Euripides, Bacchae 275
🏛 Dionysos r…

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is #sexwork! Acca Larentia was a mythical woman in Roman mythology. She was a beautiful prostitute (scortum) of roughly the same age as Romulus and Remus. She was awarded to Hercules as a prize in a game of dice by the guardian of his temple, and locked…

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The Campi Flegrei near Naples are a volcanic area that is known for bradyseism, a gradual descent or uplift of the earth's surface due to magma movement. Buildings of the Roman era, complete with intact art, are now submerged in the sea. A fitting conclusion to MerMay 🧜‍♀️
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For the last day of #PrideMonth, #MythologyMonday's theme is #LGBTQ myths. There are many queer stories in mythology all over the world. Today I want to tell you about

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"Androgynos (androgynous): [A word applied to] Dionysos, as one doing both active, male things and passive, female ones [specifically sexual intercourse]."
Byzantine Greek lexicon Suidas, entry Androgynos
🏛 A Roman silver ring with erotic intaglio, 3rd century CE
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"Dionysos, in his wrath, sent against him [Orpheus] the Bassarides (as Aeschylus tells the story), who tore him to pieces and scattered his members, which were collected and buried by the Muses in Leibethra."
Aeschylus, Bassarides (lost play)
🏛 Orpheus attacked by the Bassarides or Thracian women