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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-07-13 22:01:32
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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is sweets. In the story of Cupid and Psyche by Roman Numidian writer Apuleius, Psyche uses honeyed barley cakes to feed Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, to get past him in order to fetch a dose of beauty from Proserpina, the Queen of the Underworld. Descending to the underworld for Proserpina's beauty is the last trial giv…

Painting of Psyche feeding barley cakes to Cerberus. She holds it, looking warily at the black three-headed dog with three open maws. The painting was created by French artist Edmond Dulac (1882-1953).
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-07-06 15:01:50
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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is heat. The Chimera is a hybrid creature from #GreekMythology, usually depicted as a lion with a goat's head protruding from its back and a snake for a tail. The Greek hero Bellerophon made use of the heat in the Chimera's fiery breath a…

Roman mosaic of the Greek hero Bellerophon riding the winged horse Pegasus as he is slaying the Chimera. Fire is show to emerge from the Chimera's mouths, both the lion's mouth and the goat's mouth. There is no block of lead on Bellerophon's spear, so he either already placed it or he is yet to come up with that idea. The mosaic was created in the 2nd to 3rd centuries CE.