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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 08:44:47

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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
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This marble sculpture of Aphrodite riding a goose may have been a votive gift in a sanctuary, but the roughly finished back makes it more likely that the piece was a roof decoration (akroterion) for a temple where it would have been seen from one side only. In Roman times the sculpture was taken to Italy and used in a fountain; a hole was drilled through the goose's neck for the passage of water. The goddess is seated on the back of the goose. She grasps the bird's neck with her left hand; her …

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-03 17:19:50

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"At the command of Kypris [Aphrodite], Eros once again pours sweetly down and warms my heart."
Alcman, Fragment 59
🏛 Aphrodite with little Eros figure (possibly), Attic red-figure Skyphos attributed to the Shouvalov Painter, Musée du Louvre
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Attic red-figure Skyphos depicting Aphrodite with little Eros. She is seated, dressed in a richly folded chiton and a himation around her hips. She tugs at her sleeve with her left hand. Eros, who seems to be winged but the vase painting is damaged, crouches on a small table beside her and reaches for her left hand.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 16:42:34

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"[On the Egyptian island of Pharos] There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of Aphrodite Xenia (of the Stranger)."
Herodotus, Histories 2.112
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene from Ptolemaic Egypt made from faience, late 2nd century BCE.
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A true product of a multicultural society in Ptolemaic Egypt, this statuette combines a classical image of the Greek goddess Aphrodite appearing from the sea, just born, with the typically Egyptian material, faience. Egyptian artists achieved the characteristic brilliant blue of faience in a complex process combining ground quartz with a mixture of alkali.

The goddess is shown entirely nude, her hands raised to wring out her hair. At her left is a greatly schematized urn with garment thrown ov…

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 17:04:50

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Alexandros [Paris] fought a duel with Menelaos, but as he was being beaten, Aphrodite spirited him away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4.1
🏛 Head of Aphrodite, 330-300 BCE, Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Marble head of Aphrodite with a top-bow hairstyle that Apollon also often wears in artwork.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 07:39:22

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Have 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.