It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

#Dionysos is a famously effeminate god. He even carries the epithet "Androgynos", describing him as someone doing both active, male things and passive, female ones, specifically during sexual intercourse. The Macedonians called him by the epithet Pseudanor (Ψευδάνωρ), "fake man", metaphorically an effeminate man.
He is the god who blurs the lines between male and female.

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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

A mature, bearded #Dionysos watches a #maenad dancing in phallus shorts, a costume in ancient Greek #theatre to play the role of a #satyr, hence the horse tail.

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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"Knowing what he was doing mountain-roaming #Dionysos carried off divine #Adonis, after having won the pleasant Cyprian [Aphrodite]."
Phanokles, Fr. 3

🎨 Replica busts of #Antinous as Dionysos on the left and a youth, possibly also Dionysos, on the right, both in the Vatican Museum today.

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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"If he [#Ampelos] joined with a yearsmate hunter to follow chase, Dionysos jealous held him back, lest another be struck like himself with a heartbewitching shaft, and now enslaved by love should seduce the fickle boy's fancy."
Nonnons, Dionysiaka 10.230

🎨 #Dionysos, supported by the satyr #Ampelus. Gaeco-Roman bronze, 1st century BCE-CE, today in the Royal-Athena Galleries, New York

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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"Hephaistos refused to listen to any other of the gods save Dionysos - in him he reposed the fullest trust - and after making him drunk Dionysos brought him to heaven."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.20.3

🎨 #Dionysos and a satyr in phallos trunks take #Hephaistos partying. Red-figure vase painting, dated 450 BCE. Today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, #Vienna.

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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

""He [Dionysos] appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him, and on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe."
Homeric Hymn 7 to Dionysos

🎨 #Dionysos on a coin from Korkyra, an ancient Greek city on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea

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