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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-03 11:08:57
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
Dionysos and his pet panther welcome the new year πŸ₯‚
"Bacchus himself, grape-bunches garlanding his brow, brandished a spear that vine-leaves twined, and at his feet fierce spotted panthers lay, tigers and lynxes too, in phantom forms."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.664
πŸ› Dionysos with a Panther, 2nd century …

Marble sculpture of Dionysos. The god raises a cup of wine high above his head, a cluster of grapes in his other hand. To his feet sits a small panther raising its paw.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-27 23:35:55
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus
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Terracotta statuette of Silenus, an old satyr who became the foster father of Dionysos, bearing the child Dionysos. He is bearded, his legs hairy. He wears a himation draped around his body, leaving his genitals exposed. Baby Dionysos is held in his left hand, the baby's arm resting on Silenos' shoulder.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-25 21:33:35
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"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
πŸ› Dionysos bust decorating a fulcrum, 2nd century BCE Greece…

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
2025-12-20 16:57:46
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
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Marble sculpture of the satyr Silenos holding his foster son, the baby Dionysos. Silenos and Dionysos are wearing an ivy-leaf crown. Traces of red-brown colour remain in Silenos' full beard and Dionysos' hair.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-18 13:29:08
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"Goatherd Pan cried out: β€˜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]!’"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289
πŸ› 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
2025-11-15 10:55:25
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37
πŸ› Dionysos Mosaic, …

Mosaic of a bust of Dionysos inside a circle decorated with a band of wave patterns. The god is giving some serious side-eye while dressed in an animal skin tied over his right shoulder. His head is adorned with a crown, grape or ivy clusters, and long ribbons.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 10:01:11
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.12…

This is an Attic red-figured calyx-krater with a representation of Dionysos and Nike. A Satyr and himation-wearing youths (not shown), wish a happy life and defeat of death.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-12 03:53:14
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! πŸ‡
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43
πŸ› 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.