Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Kypris shines out from the clam sea. Over the silver on dancing dolphins ride guileful #Eros and laughing #Himeros (Desire), and the chorus of bow-backed fish plunging in the waves sports with Paphia [#Aphrodite] where she swims."
Anacreontea, Fragment 57
"[Endymion] a man of unrivalled beauty, he was loved by Selene. When he was given a wish of his choice by #Zeus, he chose to remain immortal and unaging in eternal sleep."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.56
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Wild his [Zeus'] desire had been for Kypris [#Aphrodite], when craving but not attaining he scattered his seed on the ground, and shot out the hot foam of love self-sown."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.611
🏛️ Apuleian vase painting of #Zeus plotting with Aphrodite to seduce Leda, while #Eros sits on her arm, dated ca. 330 BCE. Today in the Getty Villa Collection.
"‘So I [#Selene] am not the only one to go astray for love, I that burn for beautiful #Endymion and seek him in the Latmian cave. [...] And now you are as lovesick as myself. The little god of mischief [#Eros] has given you Iason, and many a heartache with him.'"
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.55
🏛️ Selene, Endymion, and Pothos, Roman #mosaic dated ca 3th century CE
"Receive this god [#Dionysos] . . . For he is great in other respects, and they say this too of him, as I hear, that he gives to mortals the vine that puts an end to grief. Without wine there is no longer Kypris [#Aphrodite] or any other pleasant thing for men."
Euripides, The Bacchae 770
🏛 #Eros adjusts a kottabos stand while Dionysos reclines on a couch, Bell Krater 395–375 BCE
"‘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
"Lord [#Dionysos], with whom #Eros the subduer and the blue-eyed Nymphai, and radiant #Aphrodite play, as you haunt the lofty mountain peaks."
Anacreon, Fragment 357
🏛 Dionysos & Eros, Roman copy of a Greek original, 2nd century CE, Farnese collection. National Archaeological Museum, #Naples
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Lord [#Dionysos], with whom #Eros the subduer and the blue-eyed Nymphai, and radiant #Aphrodite play, as you haunt the lofty mountain peaks."
Anacreon, Fragment 357
🏛️ Relief detail of Aphrodite and Dionysos (and baby Eros), Sarkophag 7b, Antalya Museum
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
A long, elegant gold hairpin adorned with #Aphrodite and her son #Eros. Eros offers support to his mum who appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-shaped arm bracelets she already wears.
🏛️ Gold Aphrodite Hairpin, 1st century BCE, Greece
It's #FannyFriday, the day I invite everyone to post #vulva art along with me.
Here, #Eros is helping two women remove their pubic hair to be extra sexy. Yes, this goes back to antiquity. Eros and the woman behind him are using an oil lamp to burn off the hair. The bristly pubes growing back earned the vulva the nickname "piggy" in acient Greek.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
#Eros adjusts the kottabos stand, a popular game at #ancientGreek symosia. #Dionysos reclines on a couch, his lower body richly draped, holding a thyrsos in his left hand and a wine cup in his right.
🏛️ Red-figure vase painting on a bell krater, dated 395–375 BCE.