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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-27 23:35:55
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[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.