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@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.

Golden medallion with Aphrodite sitting on a male, maned lion. Winged Eros stands in the front.