Erotic Mythology 🌷<p>It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thursday</span></a>! ⚡</p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zeus</span></a> breathes deeply with delight, like men who have undergone a great contest for a great prize, and he looks searchingly for his daughter, feeling pride in his offspring; nor yet is there even on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hera</span></a>'s face any trace of indignation; nay, she rejoices, as though <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Athena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Athena</span></a> were her daughter also."<br>Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.27</p><p>🏛️ Red-figure Stamnos, 500-460 BCE.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfZeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfZeus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>