"'O why must #Juno, goddess of sweet brides, and why should #Hymen also, favour us when man with woman cannot join in wedlock, but both are brides?'
The other maiden flamed with equal love, and often prayed for Hymen to appear."

#Ovid, Metamorphoses, Iphis and Ianthe

🎨 Stephanie Sonhj:
https://mohtz.tumblr.com/post/151338608261/greek-mythology-the-lovers-part-1-2-prints

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #lesbianHistory #ancientRome #sapphic #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

Meet this Roman oil lamp decorated with a bust of the moon goddess Luna-Selene.

🏛️ Dated 100 CE, today in the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology #Selene #Luna

It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

Bronze head of the Sun God #Helios, with a stylised radiate crown and uraeus. The rays of the crown are like a cap of leaves.

🎨 Bronze head broken off a statuette, perhaps from Syria. Dated 2nd–3rd century CE. Today at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology

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.

#PrideMonth #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology #Dionysus

"Unsuspected love had filled their hearts with equal longing—but how different! Ianthe waits in confidence and hope the ceremonial as agreed upon, and is quite certain she will wed a man. But Iphis is in love without one hope of passion's ecstasy, the thought of which only increased her flame and she a girl is burnt with passion for another girl!"

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Iphis and Ianthe

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #lesbianHistory #ancientRome #sapphic #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons

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.

#DayOfAphrodite #poetry #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology @histodons

"Pelops, whom Earth-cradling Poseidon loved,
since Klotho had taken him out of the pure cauldron,
his ivory shoulder gleaming in the hearth-light."

Pindar, First Olympian Ode

🏛️ Attic red-figure hydria-kalpis (water jar) dated early 4th Century BCE. Today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Poseidon #Pelops

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

#Ares is the father of Eros in many Greek myths, the god of sensual love. In ancient Greek art, Eros appears with same sex couples as well as opposite couples. #LoveIsLove.

🏛️ #Fresco of #Mars and #Venus with Eros and Deimos, #Pompeii & vase painting of #Eros kissing his mother's lover #Adonis.

#DayOfAres #mythology #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt #LGBTQ @antiquidons @mythology

"Tribas of the very tribades, Philaenis,
you rightly call the woman you fuck your girlfriend."

Martial 7.70

tribas, plural tribades: a woman who takes the masculine, active role during sex

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #LesbianHistory #ancientRome @antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #sapphic

"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."

Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Apollo

Ὡς Διόνυσος ἐρώμενος Χείρωνος, ἐξ οὗ καὶ μάθοι τούς τε κώμους καὶ τὰς βακχείας καὶ τὰς τελετάς.

"#Dionysos was the eromenos (youthful lover) of #Chiron, from whom he learned the songs and dances, the Bacchic rites and the initiations into the mysteries."

Ptolemaios Chennos

🎨 Dionysos riding a chariot pulled by two #centaurs, photographed by Dennis Jarvis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22490717@N02/7864313568

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Dionysus #MosaicMonday

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.

#mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology #Dionysus #bacchant #SatyrDay

For when I look at you, even for a moment, no speaking
is left in me.
No: my tongue breaks, silently, and thin
fire is racing under my skin
and no sight in my eyes and drumming
fills my ears
and cold sweat holds me and shaking
seizes all of me, and greener than grass
I am. Dead — or almost
so I seem to me.

#Sappho 31, vividly describing her love for another woman.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #LesbianHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #sapphic

"[Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of #Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty #Zeus"

Sophokles, Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #Ganymedes

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Meet these superb golden earrings consisting of a honeysuckle palmette below which hangs a finely worked 3D figure of #Ganymedes in the clutches of #Zeus, who has assumed the guise of an eagle to carry him off to Mount Olympos. The airborne theme is ingeniously adapted here as earrings hang freely in space.

🏛️ Greek, ca. 330–300 BCE

#DayOfZeus #Ganymede #Mythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

Meet this stunning pyxis depicting the day and night alternation: #Selene, the Moon, sets with her winged chariot and #Helios, the Sun, arises with his.

🏛️ Pyxis (jar) with a modern red-figure vase painting depicting Selene and Helios:
https://www.amasis-painter.gr/hellenic_ancient_art.html

#DayOfSelene #Selene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome @antiquidons @histodons @mythology @archaeodons

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.

#mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #mlm #gay #gayHistory

With many a flower necklace
you encircled your tender throat,
plaiting blossoms together to make a wreath,
and with flowery perfumes [
precious, queenly [
you anointed yourself [
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl [

Sappho 94

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #ancientGreece #Sappho #sapphic @antiquidons #GreekRomanArt

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.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology @histodons #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory

"There is some pleasure in loving a youth, since once in fact even the son of Kronos [#Zeus], king of the immortals, fell in love with #Ganymedes, seized him, carried him off to Olympos, and made him divine, keeping the lovely bloom of youth."

Theognis, Fragment 1.1345

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #ancientGreece
@antiquidons #mosaic #MosaicMonday #GreekRomanArt #Ganymede