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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-25 21:33:35
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"He rent rams, skins and all, and clove them piecemeal and cast the dead bodies on the ground; and again with his hands he neatly put their limbs together, and immediately they were alive and browsed on the green pasture."
Oppian, Cynegetica 4.230
๐Ÿ› Dionysos bust decorating a fulcrum, 2nd century BCE Greeceโ€ฆ

Very few ancient Greek works in wood have survived. This roundel presumably served as a fulcrum (headrest on a kline), a type well-known in bronze. The youthful, feminized image of Dionysos is typical of Hellenistic representations of the God of Wine.
@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
2025-10-18 13:29:08
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Goatherd Pan cried out: โ€˜I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! I wish I could be lord of the mindtripping grape, like Bakkhos [Dionysos]!โ€™"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289
๐Ÿ› Dionysos and Pan, 50-150 CE

Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos with the goat-legged Pan. Dionysos is depicted as a handsome youth, his long hair, decorated with an ivy crown, falling over his shoulders. He carries a thyrsos staff in his right hand and a cup in his left. An animal skin is draped over his torso. Pan looks up at him, a shepherd's crook in his hand.
@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
2025-10-12 03:53:14
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43
๐Ÿ› Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy

Red-figure vase painting of Dionysos and his wife Ariadne, both dressed in long, patterned robes. He holds an olive or laurel branch while she holds a thyrsos staff and a box. Above them flies an owl.
@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
2025-10-04 19:01:36
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! ๐Ÿ‡
"Braurรดn: A place in Attika, in which the Dionysia used to be held and they drank and snatched up many prostitutes."
Suidas s.v. Brauron
๐Ÿ› Dionysos glass bead, #Pompeii

Transparent glass bead with an engraved image of Dionysos holding his thyrsos staff. The bead is held up by a gloved hand.
@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