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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A quotation from Euripides:
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Only by fleeing did we avoid
being torn to pieces by the Bacchae,
but they attacked our grazing calves and not with swords in their hands.
You could have seen one of them, apart from the others, mauling with both hands
a young heifer with swelling udders, bellowing all the while;
and other women were ripping apart mature cows, s…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/60129/
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This is a portrait of a maddened maenad (is there any other kind?) in the throes of frenzied devotion to Dionysus, also known as The God Who Comes. I think I got the crazed look on her face OK and the thyrsus isn't too shabby.
#fantasy #swordandsorcery #maenad #grecoroman
A dance party for #Satyrday, so that you may channel your inner #satyr or #maenad for your #NewYearsParty tonight 🥳
May the God of Joy, Wine, and Parties heal all your sorrows for this last night of the year! 🥂🍾
Io #Dionysos!
#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYearToAll #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #ancientGreece #vasepainting
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"Bacchanalia beneath the Wind Turbines" is a drawing I did in 2019 using sanguine pencil and white pencil on tinted paper.
#drawing #sanguine #pencil #figurative #MastoArt #art #bacchanalia #Dionysus #Bacchus #maenad #WindTurbines
#windturbines #maenad #bacchus #dionysus #bacchanalia #art #MastoArt #figurative #pencil #sanguine #drawing