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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-03 12:24:37
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains,…

Black-figure vase painting of a seated man facing a flying eagle. The painting depicts either the bound Titan Prometheus tormented by the Caucasian eagle or Zeus seated on a throne with his eagle familiar.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 07:27:53
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"In the course of the battle [the giant] Porphyrion rushed against Herakles and also Hera. #Zeus instilled him with a passion for Hera and when he tore her gown and wanted to rape her, she called for help, whereat Zeus hit him with …

Detail of Zeus battling the giant Porphyrion from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). Zeus brandishes a lightning-bolt in one hand and holds a royal sceptre in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel or oak and has a cloak draped across his arm. The Gigante is armed with a rock and equipped with a crested helm and a shield painted with a coiling serpent.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-07 07:47:18
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treache…

Red-figure vase painting of Athena holding an oinochoe (wine jug) as Zeus and Hera, seated to either side of her, proffer phialai (libation bowls) to be filled.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-10 20:49:46
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from hi…

A bronze statue of Zeus striding forward, his arm raised to hurl a thunderbolt now missing. He has long, braided hair and a crown.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-17 00:12:13
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Let not #Zeus be angry again [. . .] and pour down showers of rain through the air to flood the circuit of the eternal universe. I hope I may not behold the sea in the sky and Selene's car soaking."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 36.…

Silver coin depicting the moon goddess Luna, draped, crescent on her head, her cloak billowing in a circle around head, standing in a biga of horses prancing left, leaning forward, holding the reins with both hands. The words LUNA LUCIFERA, Luna the lightbearer, are minted around the scene.