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"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
Art by Xanness:
https://t.co/Wi67lribzp
"When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgones, he received from Mercurius [Hermes], who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an enemy."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.12
Art by a-gnosis
"Having kissed Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum
#PrideMonth
Nobody knows what the colossus looked like. But the popular image of him straddling the harbour with ships passing underneath is a medieval invention. The bronze statue could not have been built with its legs apart without collapsing under its own weight.
#Solstice
It's the Day of Kronos / #SaturnsDay / #Saturday!
Engraving showing a statue of Saturnus standing naked on a socle, holding a scythe in his right hand and a child in his left hand.
After Jacques Jonghelinck, 1586
#DayOfKronos #Kronos #Saturnus #neoclassicism
I have exciting news: I'm only 3 patrons away from the 50 patron reward: sexy postcards!
1x MF: my version of Hades and Persephone by @LindaSejic
1x MMM: Apollon, Dionysos & Hermes by @TheLastBacchae
1x FF: patrons get to vote on who it's gonna be...
https://t.co/MCmcFCpLEF
Apollon, Frigg, Tezcatlipoca, and Wadjet 😊
Frigg by Sam Flegal
https://t.co/kCIMHUgyEW
Tezcatlipoca by Manwe Varda
https://t.co/c7ZQiwPznu
Wadjet by SillyJelly
https://t.co/zwbD9wAZH8
#MythologyMonday #Mythology