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.

#mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology

Hephaistos (Hephaestus) was the ancient Greek god of fire, metallurgy, and crafts. https://www.worldhistory.org/Hephaistos/ #History #GreekMythology #Hephaistos

Leconte de Lisle, "Poèmes antiques", 1852, poème "Médailles antiques".

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8mes_antiques/M%C3%A9dailles_antiques

#GrèceAntique #littérature #poésie #MythologieGrecque #LeconteDeLisle #Parnasse #Héphaïstos #Aphrodite

Vulcan or Volcanus was the Roman god of fire and forge, the equivalent of Hephaestus from Greek mythology. #History #Vulcan #RomanMythology #Hephaistos #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Vulcan/

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is jewels!
When #Hephaistos found out that his wife #Aphrodite's affair with his brother #Ares had been fruitful, he crafted a cursed necklace to give to their daughter #Harmonia on her wedding day: a circlet of emeralds glowing with a hidden fire. But the adamant is stamped with figures of ill omen, and the amber, tears of #Helios' daughters, is intertwined with plague.
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#mythology #GreekMythology #GreekGods @mythology @antiquidons

The Stymphalian Birds were a flock of man-eating birds of prey which lived around Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia on the Peloponnese. #Herakles had to drive them away as the sixth of his twelve labours.
#Athena got some bronze noise-makers from #Hephaistos and gave them to him. By shaking these, Herakles frightened the birds. They flew up in fear, and Herakles could reach them with his arrows.

Which is your favourite #bird story from #mythology?
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@mythology @antiquidons #GreekMythology #Heracles

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

@TealHands' take on the Greek myth of #Ares and #Aphrodite getting caught in #Hephaistos' net during on of their many hook-ups, using the #HadesGame designs of the gods:
https://twitter.com/TealHands/status/1460708227696496646

(Notice poor Alektryon in the window?)

#DayOfAres #Ares #GreekMythology

This past Saturday we poured oil for #Hephaistos. Canonically he's a blacksmith, but his aesthetic of go into the shop and craft tools to make civilization possible has always struck me as very in line with engineers in tech, making him one of my patrons. This weekend I poured in thanks for the tech that today lets us stay safely in our homes to minimize spread of infection.

#polytheism