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@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.