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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 10:49:35
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14
🏛️ #Jupiter, 1s…

Roman marble statue of Jupiter called the Marbury Hall Zeus. Portrayed as a mature bearded man, Zeus sits enthroned in his role as king of the gods. Originally he would have held his attributes: a scepter and a thunderbolt. The colossal god towers over his mortal observers. Documented in the 1570s at Tivoli near Rome, the statue once decorated the gardens of the Villa d'Este. It is named for having been in the collection at Marbury Hall in England. Although it was carved in a Roman workshop in…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 19:42:53
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It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143
🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos

Red-figure vase painting of Zeus, seated naked on a rock. The head of baby Dionysos is emerging from his left thigh. Beside him, in winged boots and a traveller's cloak, Hermes holds his father's sceptre along with his own kerykeion staff as he watches the miraculous birth.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-30 12:30:06
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"Zeus Kronides received him in a chamber fit for birth and having covered him in his thigh shut him up with golden clasps, hidden from Hera. And he brought forth, when the Moirai had perfected him, the…

A modern sculpture of the birth of Dionysos showing the infant inside Zeus' thigh that has been sliced open for baby Dionysos to emerge.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-23 23:05:50
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"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b
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Roman bronze figurine of Jupiter as a mature, bearded man dressed in a himation that he wears around his hips and his shoulder, draped around his left arm. He is crowned with a wreath, possibly of oak leaves, his sacred plant. The right arm is, sadly, missing, as is his right foot.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-20 20:16:47
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3
🏛️ #Zeus and

Red figure vase painting of Zeus pursuing Ganymede. Zeus is depicted as a mature, bearded man with a wreath in his hair and a himation draped over one shoulder. He holds his thunderbolt in his left and his sceptre in his right. Ganymede is turning back to look at Zeus, a large hoop in his right, his left hand raised. He is depicted as a young man with shoulder-length hair and a fillet. Both are nude.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 09:10:16
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"And now the day was spent, the hour stole on when one would doubt if it were light or dark, some lingering light at night's vague borderlands. Suddenly the whole house began to shake, the lamps flared up, and all the rooms were bright with flashing crimson fires, and phantom forms of savage beasts of prey howled all arou…

Zeus, wearing himation and chiton, seats on a diphros holding a thunderbolt in his right hand. The goddess Hera (named) attends the mythical birth. The wine god holds in his hands two torches, connecting, in this way, his divine nature to the fire and the light. Indeed, according to the myth, his mother Semele was burnt by Zeus' thunderbolt, and Dionysos was referred with the appellative of “Pyrigonos”, the one that was created by the fire.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 08:57:29
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"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
Diod…

Marble votive relief to Zeus and Hera. The relief is framed on the right by a pillar with base and capital supporting an entablature crowned by a flat roof composed of tiles. The left side of the relief has been broken off. A bearded Zeus wears a himation wrapped to leave his chest bare. He has a long pointed beard and his long hair is gathered up into a bun at the back of his head. Zeus faces left and extends a phiale (shallow bowl) towards another figure, now missing. The only evidence of thi…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-09 23:30:41
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And Zeus, when Prometheus had taken fire and given it to men, put him in chains."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.15.2
🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes in The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, 1878 CE
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Oil painting of Zeus and Ganymede asleep on a cloud, Zeus' eagles with its head tucked under its wing, while Prometheus steals fire from Zeus' thunderbolt. His actual thunderbolt, it's not a euphemism.