Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"What will you do? Will you betray your own land, #Ares, where you have dwelt since long ago? God of the golden helmet, look, look upon the city that you once cherished!"
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 87
🏛 #Mars, Roman intaglio, red jasper, National Museum #Wales
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[#]DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"A team of mules unbridled and a mule-cart with silver wheels are there on the beach, but #Selene knows not how to put mules to her yokestrap--she drives a team of bulls!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.222
🏛️ #Luna in her biga, relief on the short west side of the Arch of Constantine, #Rome, 312—315 CE
📸 Sergey Sosnovskiy
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"While in the first forming of the world the island was still like mud and soft, the sun dried up the larger part of its wetness and filled the land with living creatures. [...] In consequence of these events the island [Rhodes] was considered to be sacred to Helios."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.56.3
🏛️ #Helios on a tetradrachme from the city of #Rhodes
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"The Nymphs of Nysa were given his charge and kept him hidden away within their caves, and nourished him on milk. Down on earth as destiny ordained these things took place, and Bacchus, baby twice born, was cradled safe and sound."
Ovid
🏛 Dionysos with Nysa & #satyr , relief panel from the Sebasteion, ca second quarter of the first century CE, Aphrodisias, Aphrodisias Museum
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[#]GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday
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