Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Nothing is sweeter than Love; and every other joy
is second to it: even the honey I spit out of my mouth.
Thus Nossis says: and who didn't love Kypris [#Aphrodite],
doesn't know what sort of roses her flowers are.

Nossis of Locri

🏛️ Red-figure vase painting of Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta, dated 430 BCE.

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Red-figure vase painting depicting the Goddess of Love, #Aphrodite, and her son #Eros, who was often associated with same sex love.

🏛️ Red-figure bell krater, 370-360 BCE.

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Mirror case depicting two women bathing before a statue of #Aphrodite on a pillar. The goddess is of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type, Aphrodite rising from the sea, her pose suggesting that she is wringing out her hair.

🏛️ Roman mirror case dated 110–117 CE, today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Be a voyeur and watch #Aphrodite put on her strophion, an ancestor of the bra. The Aphrodite-Venus statuettes in terracotta were mass-products, very popular with her ardent devotees.

🏛️ Terracotta statuette found in the House of Orpheus, Kato Paphos. Today in the Paphos District Museum.

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Terracotta statuette of #Aphrodite or a #Muse leaning on a pillar. Presumably Eros was originally part of the statuette. Traces of brilliant colour remain, especially the intense pink of the chiton.

🏛️ 3rd century BCE, Tomb of the Erotes in Eretria, Greece. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

This nude terracotta figurine was likely inspired by the #Aphrodite of Knidos by #Praxiteles. Created from inexpensive terracotta clay, this Aphrodite might have been commissioned as a votive offering by a person of modest means.

🏛️ Greece, 4th-3rd Century BCE, today in the Cleveland Museum of Art

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

This time I want to show you a #fresco of the #Aphrodite Anadyomene type (Aphrodite rising from the sea): #Venus emerges from the sea and wrings out her wet hair, thrilling visitors of the triclinium.

🏛️ House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Meet this gorgeous Greek terracotta figurine depicting the birth of #Aphrodite: the goddess emerges from an open #scallop shell in the nude, seated with her legs tucked beneath, long wavy hair falling to her shoulders, while she's looking at herself in a mirror held in her right hand.

Dated ca. 4th century BCE

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