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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 16:42:34
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"[On the Egyptian island of Pharos] There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of Aphrodite Xenia (of the Stranger)."
Herodotus, Histories 2.112
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene from Ptolemaic Egypt made from faience, late 2nd century BCE.
#DayOfAphrodite

A true product of a multicultural society in Ptolemaic Egypt, this statuette combines a classical image of the Greek goddess Aphrodite appearing from the sea, just born, with the typically Egyptian material, faience. Egyptian artists achieved the characteristic brilliant blue of faience in a complex process combining ground quartz with a mixture of alkali. The goddess is shown entirely nude, her hands raised to wring out her hair. At her left is a greatly schematized urn with garment thrown ov…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-26 10:09:06
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
Ho…

Bronze bust of Helios with a seven ray crown and long hair, wearing a chlamys cloak pinned over his right shoulder. Perhaps it is a portrait of Alexander the Great as Helios.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-25 15:45:56
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"When Zeus was beginning warfare against the Titans [...] he saw an eagle fly nearby as a favourable omen for victory. In return for this happy omen, and particularly because it was indeed followed by victory, he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour."
Anacreon, Frag…

Marble sculpture of Zeus or Jupiter, standing, an eagle perched at his feet, the thunderbolt in its talons. The god is wearing a himation and is depicted as a mature, bearded man.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-23 07:43:38
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2
🏛 Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE
#DayOfAres

This libation bowl (phiale) has a round boss in the center surrounded by beautiful repoussé decoration of lotus and acanthus and chariots driven by winged Victories; each of the four-horsed chariots has a divine passenger--Herakles, Athena, Hermes, Dionysus, and Ares.
@frankstohl@mastodon.social
2025-09-15 04:00:09

Apple OS26 updates are coming today #apple #update #day

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 17:04:50
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Alexandros [Paris] fought a duel with Menelaos, but as he was being beaten, Aphrodite spirited him away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4.1
🏛 Head of Aphrodite, 330-300 BCE, Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston
#DayOfAphrodite

Marble head of Aphrodite with a top-bow hairstyle that Apollon also often wears in artwork.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-21 08:54:46
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Sokrates: 'Ares, then, if you like, would be named for his virility and courage, or for his hard and unbending nature, which is called arraton; so Ares would be in every way a fitting name for the god of war.'"
Plato, Cratylus 400d
🏛 Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
#DayOfAres

Roman bronze statuette of the god Mars. He is depicted in full armour, a helmet on his head and a sword carried below his left arm. A shield seems to have been placed in front of him, held up by his left hand, now lost. A spear likely used to be in his right, also lost.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-23 23:05:50
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"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.
@DamonHD@mastodon.social
2025-08-30 16:47:41

Unexpected #dayRave in the bagging area... Drum and bass, dancing, lights, DJ.

Day rave, dnb
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 09:09:11
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Ares went with the Trojans. Who then was the first and who the last that they slaughtered, Hektor, Priamos' son, and Ares armed with brass?"
Homer, Iliad 5.699
🏛 Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE
#DayOfAres

Marble bust of Ares. He wears a magnificent helmet with the crest coming from a Sphinx lying on top. Some hair flows from the helmet down his temples and there is a curly beard emerging from the temples while the chin is bare.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 07:39:22
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"After her came grey wolves, fawning on her, and grim-eyed lions, and bears, and fleet leopards, ravenous for deer: and she was glad in heart to see them, and put desire in their breasts, so that they all mated, two together."
Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 68
🏛 Greek medallion, 3rd century BCE, Amrit in Syria.

Golden medallion with Aphrodite sitting on a male, maned lion. Winged Eros stands in the front.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-20 23:39:03

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Day Soul Exquisite:
🎵 Yonic
#DaySoulExquisite
daysoulexquisite.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/0wWkO9K

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 20:01:33
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And he [Apollonius of Tyana] took up a handful of frankincense and said: ‘O thou Helios, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones,…

A marble altar dedicated to Sol and Domitian. Reliefs decorating the altar show the bust of Helios/Sol and a snake.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-16 07:30:16
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
Oppian, Halieutica 2.24
🏛 Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE
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Sardonyx gem engraved with Ares or Mars standing, fully armed with spear and shield.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-19 00:17:06

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
C.Y.M. & Day Wave:
🎵 Life Of Mine
#CYM #DayWave
open.spotify.com/track/3mdlQ3u

@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
2025-10-03 17:19:50
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"At the command of Kypris [Aphrodite], Eros once again pours sweetly down and warms my heart."
Alcman, Fragment 59
🏛 Aphrodite with little Eros figure (possibly), Attic red-figure Skyphos attributed to the Shouvalov Painter, Musée du Louvre
#DayOfAphrodite

Attic red-figure Skyphos depicting Aphrodite with little Eros. She is seated, dressed in a richly folded chiton and a himation around her hips. She tugs at her sleeve with her left hand. Eros, who seems to be winged but the vase painting is damaged, crouches on a small table beside her and reaches for her left hand.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-09 13:00:59
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares [War], human blood."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 242
🏛 Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE
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Ancient Roman bronze statuette of Mars, the god of warfare, with a nice olive green patina. He is in full armour with a crested helmet and used to carry a spear in his right.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-19 10:10:43
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
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The sun-god Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript holding a blue orb and riding a chariot drawn by four white horses.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 00:39:54
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575
🏛 #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire
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Neoclassical sculpture goup of Mars and Amor. Ares is in the nude, only wearing his crested helmet and a cloak draped over his left shoulder. Amor has taken his left arm and Mars is looking at him.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 06:49:04
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Zeus breathes deeply with delight, like men who have undergone a great contest for a great prize, and he looks searchingly for his daughter, feeling pride in his offspring; nor yet is there even on Hera's face any trace of indignation; nay, she rejoices, as though Athena were her daughter also."
Philostratus th…

Red-figure vase painting of Athena, daughter of Zeus, standing between her step-mother Hera and Zeus who are both seated and holding a sceptre. Zeus is holding a libation bowl towards Athena who is bearing a spear and the aegis.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-04 08:37:37
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)
🏛 Red-figure vase painting
#DayOfAres

Red-figure vase painting of Persephone overseeing Sisyphos and probably Ares leaving.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-16 10:09:51
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."

Silver bowl with a sacrifice scene in relief: a youthful priest wearing a flowing sleeveless tunic and a mantle rolled around his waist and draped over his left arm, a laurel wreath in his full curly locks, cradling pomegranates and other fruit in the crook of his left arm, gripping a goat by its horn, leading it toward a flaming hexagonal altar, embellished with scrolling dots on the upper surface and base, a wreath around its center, the altar situated at the base of the steps of a Temple to …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 00:45:06
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385
🏛 #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
#DayOfAres

This carved limestone relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos, or small temple, above a grave. The relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveller's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The stron…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 08:57:29
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"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
2025-10-12 10:21:37
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Golden Titan [Helios the Sun], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illuminates all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios
🏛️ Roman silver …

Photograph of a finger ring against a black background. The solid hoop flat on the interior is rounded on the exterior and expanding to the broad angular shoulders. The bezel is centered by a relief radiate bust of Helios in profile to the right, framed by raised bands. The face and hair of Helios are cut out of the sheet gold to reveal the silver below.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 07:16:27
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141
🏛️ #Ganymedes and Zeus as an eagle, Roman

Mosaic of Ganymedes giving Zeus in the shape of an eagle something to drink from a cup. Ganymedes wears boots, a red himation, and a blue Phrygian cap.
@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
#neoclassicalArt

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.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-07 10:23:17
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with mu…

Terracotta oil lamp depicting Odysseus with the Sun. Helios is seated, wearing his sunray crown. Three of his horses can be seen in the background.
@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
2025-10-05 10:24:30
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless g…

Vase painting of Helios, the Sun, rising from the sea in the morning. He is standing in his chariot, holding the reins and a riding crop. His head is surrounded by a shining aureola. A fish and shellfish represent the sea while stars litter the night sky above.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-04 07:31:42
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"There is also [in Troizenos, Argolis] a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Soter (the Saviour), which, they say, was made by [the mythical] Aitios, the son of Anthas, when he was king."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.10
🏛️ Glass cast, Roman cameo, bust of Zeus-Jupiter, signet ring, 30 BCE - No later than 200 C…

Glass cast of Zeus-Jupiter on a signet ring. The god is depicted as a mature man with a full beard and long hair. He's wearing a crown or fillet around his head. He is shown in profile.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-02 20:31:05
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."

Panel of a sarcophagus with a marble relief of Helios grieving for his son Phaethon. He is comforted by a child and a female figure.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-02 18:36:51
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141
🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan

Etruscan bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus in the shape of a giant eagle. The eagle's talons hold on to a naked Ganymedes by the hips. Ganymedes reaches up, one arm holding on to the eagle's neck. Three figures are there to witness the abduction, two male and one female, all of them nude.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-30 12:30:06
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
Happy #Halloween 🩸
"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
2025-08-31 10:25:05
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"She [Gaia] prayed to Titan Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Non…

Bronze figurine of the Roman sun god Sol. He's standing, his right arm raised, a riding crop in his left. A seven-spiked sun ray crown adorns his head. A himation is draped around his shoulders and left arm.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-28 08:09:55
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen. Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.2
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Roman marble copy of a Greek statue of Zeus (Roman Jupiter). The god stands holding a royal sceptre (missing) and cup, with an eagle by his side. He is depicted as a mature man with a full beard.