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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-26 08:59:32
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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)
๐Ÿ› Orpheus attacked by the Bassarides or Thracian women

Red-figure vase painting of Orpheus, recognisable by his lyre and Phrygian cap, as he is attacked by the Bassarides or Thracian women.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-23 21:35:16
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Dionysos made blonde-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Kronos [Zeus] made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947
Bonus #FannyFriday of beautiful

Roman Fresco of Ariadne and Dionysos. Ariadne has her arm slung around her husband Dionysos, raising a rython cup. A yellow himation slips from her hips, exposing her pubic triangle. Dionysos holds up the himation behind her shoulder. He holds a phiale or cup. Both of them have flowers in her hair.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-20 13:43:57
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Dionysos may not be without noise on his voyage; and its prow is drawn out in the semblance of a golden leopardess. Dionysos is devoted to this animal because it is the most exciteable of animals and leaps lightly like a Bakkhe."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1.19
๐Ÿ› Roman

Roman mosaic of Dionysos reclining and feeding his pet panther wine from a rhyton, a horn-shaped drinking cup. A garland of plants and flowers hangs above them and the god holds his iconic thyrsos in his left, a staff with a pine cone at the tip.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-19 18:03:17
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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
๐Ÿ› The Lycurgus Cup, made from dichroic glass, which changes colour wโ€ฆ

The Lycurgus Cup is a Roman cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing through it: red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front. This photo shows it backlit. The cup is a very rare example of a complete Roman cage cup (diatretum), where the glass has been painstakingly cut and ground back to leave only a decorative "cage" at the original surface-level. Many parts of the cage have been completely undercut. The "cageโ€ฆ
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-16 13:38:12
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Blessed Bakkhos, god of wine . . . Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care augments the fruit that banishes despair."
Orphic Hymn 50
๐Ÿ› Roman mosaic of #Bacchus giving a libation, National Museum of Beirutโ€ฆ

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
2025-09-13 09:33:29
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : โ€˜Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313
๐Ÿ› Drinking cup (kylix) wiโ€ฆ

Dionysos holding a kantharos and a vine, and a satyr pouring from an oinochoรซ. At the left the inscription "The boy is handsome" (HO PAIS KALOS) can be read. The whole scene is surrounded by a circle decorated with a meander. The exterior is painted black without decoration.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-12 17:23:01
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"[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: โ€˜Young womโ€ฆ

Red-figure vase painting of Ino and Agaue holding Pentheus' lifeless torso. A satyr stands behind them on the right. Two bacchants are standing on the left, one of them holding one of Pentheus' torn-off legs.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-09 14:46:45
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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
๐Ÿ› #Dionysos on a chariot pulled by Maenads, Camโ€ฆ

Onyx and sardonyx cameo of Dionysos seated on a chariot pulled by Maenads. A himation is draped around his hips and billowing over his head, suggesting movement. His pose is relaxed and lounging. Two maenads dressed in animal skins draw the chariot. Two winged Erotes play around the chariot, symbolising love and lust. One of them is holding a burning torch and the reins of the maenads pulling the chariot. Dionysos has his arm around another figure that is either seated in the chariot next to hiโ€ฆ
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-06 09:33:05
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Proklos attributed aesthetic qualities of the dithyramb and nome to the characters of the gods addressed: orgiastic melody, words and rhythms for Dionysos, dignity for Apollon."
Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period by William Furley, 2021

Silver disk showing Dionysos sitting, holding his thyrsus, with Apollo Citharoedus (Apollo the kithara player) beside him in a biga chariot drawn by a female panther and a goat on which sits Silenos playing the double flute. A biga is a chariot drawn by two animals. The female panther has large, visible teats, illustrating Dionysos' fertility powers.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-05 15:58:51
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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 rambโ€ฆ

Bell krater with a red-figure vase painting of Dionysos, a Maenad, and a bearded satyr carrying a torch.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-02 08:35:40
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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
๐Ÿ› Dionysos rโ€ฆ

Relief depicting the god Dionysos, seated, receiving wine poured into his kantharos cup. He holds a thyrsos staff in his left arm, extending his kantharos with his right. A panther lies to his feet.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-30 22:16:54
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Dionysos mingles in the wine new powers,
Sending high adventure to the thoughts of men."
Bacchylides, fragment "For Alexander son of Amyntas", from a 1st century papyrus
๐Ÿ› Roman bronze figure of Dionysos, dated 1st century CE, now in private collection
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This bronze sculpture is an exquisitely detailed representation of the god Dionysos, whose cult was one of the most popular in ancient times. Here, the god is nude, with a mantle that gently lies on his right leg. He is holding a bunch of grapes with his left hand, and a rhyton (drinking horn) with the right. The god is youthful and joyfully gazes forwards, with a crown of ivy leaves set upon his long flowing hair. These features clearly resemble those of the life-size Roman marble sculpture oโ€ฆ
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-28 18:00:09
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"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
๐Ÿ› A Roman silver ring with erotic intaglio, 3rd century CE
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A Roman silver ring with erotic intaglio depicting two men and a woman engaging in a "love chain" with the woman reclining on a couch, receiving one of the men and the other man fucking him in the butt. A large phallus is depicted on the left to the scene, possibly for good luck.