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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-21 22:12:27
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"#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

Mosaic of Dionysos holding a thyrsos staff and leaning on a man dressed in nothing but a leopard skin, most likely his boyfriend Ampelus.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-16 13:38:12
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"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…

Dionysos, crowned with grapevine or ivy, his dark hair flowing to his shoulders, holds up a horn-like cup, pouring a libation. A leopard sits beneath it, looking up as if excited to taste the wine.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-07 10:14:39
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid

Bronze figurine of the god Dionysos supported by his satyr boyfriend Ampelos. The youthful god of wine, having over-imbibed, holds an upturned rhyton (wine horn) in his right hand. He wears only a chlamys and high laced travelling boots and wreath about his head.