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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-05 15:58:51
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"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 ramb…

Bell krater with a red-figure vase painting of Dionysos, a Maenad, and a bearded satyr carrying a torch.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-09 14:46:45
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"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
🏛 #Dionysos on a chariot pulled by Maenads, Cam…

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 hi…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-12 17:23:01
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[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: ‘Young wom…

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.