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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! πŸ‡
"#Bacchus on hills the fair Adonis saw,
And ravished him, and reaped a wondrous joy."
Plutarch, Quaestiones convivales 4.5.3
πŸ› 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
2025-06-14 16:33:06
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"Dionysos was loved by Chiron, from whom he learnt the songs and dances, and the Bacchic rites and initiations."
Ptolemaios Chennos
πŸ› Illustration of #Chiron by Ezio Anichini, photographed by Alexis Orloff

A drawing in the style of red figure vase paintings showing the centaur Chiron in white as an elderly person with a beard and baldness. The caption says he is attending a gathering celebrating the glory of Achilles. Four women are dancing beside him, a young man is pouring wine, and two men are sitting at a table.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-07 10:14:39
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"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.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-05-31 12:26:11
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
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 πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ
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A marble statue of Dionysos under water, seen from the side. He is leaning on a plinth with a himation draped over it. In the background, we can see a fish and another statue.