It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Ganymedes, whom #Jupiter is said to have made cupbearer of the gods, snatching him up from his parents because of his beauty."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.29
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When Venus [#Aphrodite] was bathing in the river Achelous he [#Zeus] sent an eagle to take her sandal to Amythaonia of the Egyptians and give it to #Mercurius [Hermes]. #Venus, in seeking for it, came to him who loved her and so he, on attaining his desire, as a reward put the eagle in the sky."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.16
"‘Be gracious to me, shining deity,’ I said, ‘and let the rocks of Latmos rise in thy mind! Endymion will not have you austere of heart. Bend, O I pray, your face to aid my secret loves. You, a goddess, did glide from the skies and seek a mortal love.'" #Ovid, Heroides 18.59
🏛️ #Endymion sarcophagus, detail of #Selene, Endymion, #Eros, early 3rd century CE, Roman Marble
"We shall rule that the young man under thirty may take wine in moderation, but that he must entirely abstain from intoxication and heavy drinking. But when a man has reached the age of forty, he may join in the convivial gatherings and invoke #Dionysos, above all other gods." #Plato, Laws 665b
🏛 Drunken Dionysus #Mosaic from Antiochia, 4th century CE
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"I [#Venus] should find some favour with the sea, for in its holy depths in days gone by from sea-foam I was formed, and still from foam I take my name in Greece [#Aphrodite]."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.521
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"As soon as he [#Zeus] had seated himself upon his father's throne, he immediately assigned to the deities their several privileges and apportioned to them their proper powers."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 200
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"There is also #Hermes bringing to Alexandros [Paris], the son of Priamos, the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexandros, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, #Hera, #Athena, and #Aphrodite."
Description of Greece 5.19.5
"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of Bakkhos [#Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs, leading the same life as the Erotes, the darling of Kythere [Aphrodite as goddess of pleasure]."
Anacreontea, Fragment 38
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Zephryos blew [#Aphrodite] over the loud-moaning sea. [The Horai] clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc & precious gold & adorned her with golden necklaces"
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene, Baalbek, #Lebanon, ca. 1st-2nd century CE
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed all his strength. From Olympos he came, hurling his lightning: the bolt flew thick and fast from his strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame."
Hesiod, Theogony
🏛️ Golden stater minted by Diodotos II, ca. 235-225 BCE, Baktria
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Lord of Korykos [#Hermes], blessed, helpful and skilled in words, you assist in work,
You are a friend of mortals in need,
And you wield the dreaded and respected weapon of speech."
Orphic Hymn 28 to Hermes
🏛 Hermes-Mercurius, Museo Pio-Clementino, Musei Vaticani, Vatican, Rome
"Hear, O divine queen, light-bringing and splendid #Selene,
Bull-horned #Moon traversing the air in a race with night.
Nocturnal, torch-bearing, maiden of fair stars,
Moon waxing and waning, feminine and masculine,
Glittering lover of horses, mother of time, bearer of fruit."
Orphic Hymn 9 to Selene
🏛️ #Luna-Selene marble statue, dated circa 150-200 CE
Women dance around a pillar idol of #Dionysos, festooned with branches and set before a table where one of them ladles wine into a cup. The image of the god fastened to the pillar suggests a festival of Dionysos.
🏛 Dionysos and worshipping women, red-figure stamnos, late 5th century BCE
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
When the Sabines attacked #Rome, #Venus noticed that #Juno had unlocked one of the gates. Unable to undo the Queen's sabotage, she asked the Ausoniae for help. Using yellow sulphur, the crafty nymphs brought the water of their spring to a boil and successfully blocked the gate.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"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. On this altar they sacrifice in secret to Zeus Lykaios."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.2-7 (Arkadia)
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"But Nephele seized both him [Phrixos] and her daughter [Helle], and gave them a golden-fleeced ram which she had received from #Hermes, by which they were borne through the sky over and across the land and the sea."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.80
🏛 Hermes riding a ram, marble statue from Mlanolovo-Kjustemdil, 2nd-3rd century CE
#Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, saved Theseus' life by teaching him how to use Ariadne's thread, a method still used today. Theseus abandoned her on the island of Naxos on his way home to Athens, where Dionysos found her and married her.
🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne on the Pronomos Vase, an Attic Red-Figure Krater, ca 400 BCE
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"#Prometheus fashioned humans and animals on Zeus' orders. When #Zeus saw that the animals far outnumbered the humans, he ordered Prometheus to reduce the number of the animals by turning them into people. Prometheus did, and therefore those people have a human body but the soul of an animal."
Aesop, Fables 515
🏛️ Roman sarcophagus, Prometheus' creation of man, 4th century CE
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"#Hermes brought them to the place where rich-crowned #Demeter was staying & checked them before her fragrant temple.
And when Demeter saw them, she rushed forth like a Maenad down some wooded mountain, while #Persephone, when she saw her mother's sweet eyes, leapt down to run to her, and falling upon her neck, embraced her."