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priestess of Aphrodite-Ares ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ιέρεια της Αφροδίτης-Άρης
Glory to the Theoi
Joined March 2024
Aphrodite showing Ares her doves, which made a nest in his helmet. Painting by Joseph Marie Vien
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@lunatriviadiana She’s absolutely the type to send random images of cats or worms or smth together and text Ares “this is us”😭.
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@UnlawfulSpoon80 Aphrodite tends to be depicted nude as she is the goddess of sex (among other things), Ares is often nude with her because she disarms him, this is why you can see the erotes behind/having removed his shield.
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The Women of Amphissa (1887) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Elaboration below🏛️
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@UnlawfulSpoon80 It’s also a stylistic choice from that era of art, classic art tends to show nude subjects, even when the art is not sexual.
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⇢ ˗ˏˋ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙥𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙧𝙚𝙨.-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈a thread. :: From meeting to marriage to divorce to marriage again.
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Ancient Rome did not utilize the “Roman Salute”, however, such a pose was a subject of later paintings and statues—the arm being extended at shoulder level, not over the chest, with a bender elbow typically present. The Nazi party adopted this salute and straightened the arm +.
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@Kusajishi_1 They are only siblings in according to Homer, according to Hesiod they are not related. The “cherubs” are erotes, little daimons of love and lust and the like, they are watching because it’s a romantic scene and thus their domain, similar to how ‘Cupid’ shows up in Roman art.
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Highly recommend this book, it’s short and pretty straight forward, easy to follow but is clear enough that if you did want more extensive detail you can easily figure out what to search for to continue learning, very very nice
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⇢ ˗ˏˋ 𝐏𝐫𝐨-𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚.-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈a thread. :: Theology vs mythology, the god of violence, passion, and courage.
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Especially when Aglaia’s right there and there IS a happy ending for Hephaestus; it is pointless to continue to cling to the weirdest and least-respectful retelling trope. Stan loving consenting couples who slay together (literally, war gods and all). // End thread
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* ~ . , . Happy Aphrodisia everyone !!. — . I celebrate it later , but some celebrate it now , so I’ll do a catchall post !!
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Using this gif is not an argument and if you see someone use this as a way to dismiss the salute, please disregard them. Placing Hollywood as historical proof is embarrassing enough. Protect your minority friends this term, and pray to great Zeus that justice is swift.
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.‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ My Favorite (old) Art of Ares and Aphrodite. -------------a thread---<3
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It is a very important story about consent in marriages, and how you cannot restrain or stop love- even forbidden. What modern audiences tend to do is entirely disregard the entire topic of consent in the myth out of sympathy for Hephaestus.
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Notably, Aeschylus and most other writers call Ares HER consort, or the partner of her bed. 👀.
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This, ironically, turns an incredibly powerful love story into an INCREDIBLY shallow one, where a guy gets a girl because “he deserves her” without any consideration for her.
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩.:: Ares represents a lot of things for a lot of people, and while he is connected to violence, he is also more importantly the god of courage, strength, passion, and (healthy) masculinity.
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♡︎.╰──☆*:・ﾟ." The Paphian [Aphrodite] also, [Harmonia's] lovely mother, decorated her daughter's newbuilt bower for Cadmos, while she sang of the god-ordained marriage; her father [Ares] danced with joy for his girl, bare and stript of his armour, a tame Ares!…
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𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐬.:: He also has good mythological stories that reflect his religious aspects, they are just less popular.
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They finally persuaded their husbands to let them take them back to the frontier, escorting them for their safety.".— Plutarch recounting the events in his book Moralia.
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usurpers, fearing that the maeneds would be violated, all ran to the market, surrounded the sleeping women silently without questioning them, rendered them all the care possible and brought them food….
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Later, in the iliad, Homer makes a note to explain that after the affair, 𝐇𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝, and Aglaia replaced Aphrodite as Hephaestus’s wife.
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𝐌𝐲 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬.This story has various myths and while some of them are about why cheating is bad and shameful (net), the overarching theme is that love cannot be forced.
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Ares’ relationship with gender in his stories is very interesting to me, he is often written more femininely than other gods, despite being the god of masculinity. No toxic masculinity here. But that’s a story for another thread.
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tucked the thumb inward, as well as raising the salute over the heart level. This became the most common usage of the salute as it was party-wide and no longer restricted to certain paintings or movies. .
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Ares has no myths of SA or anything of the sort, none, zero, and has a metric shitload of mentions of helping women and goddesses in his life. Including but not limited to his Amazonian daughters, his mother, Aphrodite herself, and the women I mentioned above.
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Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess.
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In short: he respects women, he cooks, he cleans, he dances (this actually isnt a joke, he dances, really well).
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As such, saying “it was a Roman salute” does not mean anything, as the Roman salute was the same salute the Nazis used, with very slight (most likely unintentional) uniform changes. The Roman salute is the fascist salute is the Nazi salute. .
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:: The most common myth that is attributed to Aphrodite falling in love with Ares is that of Eros causing the spark. Ares returns from battle and passes by baby Eros and his javelin, he mocks it for being weak.
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"And Hephaistos (Hephaestus), the famous Lame One, made Aglaia (Aglaea), youngest of the Kharites (Charites, Graces), his buxom wife.". Aphrodite is then later referred to as the bride of Ares by Quintus Smyrnaeus.
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…and laid his right arm unweaponed about Aphrodite-. He had shaken off from his helmet head the plumes of horsehair so familiar in the battlefield, and wreathed bloodless garlands about his hair, weaving a merry song for Love. "
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⇢ ˗ˏˋ Debunking of Medusa / Poseidon.-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈a thread. :: This is the clearing up of Medusa’s original Greek story vs the political commentary of the Roman Ovid who popularized an intentionally misogynist change of story.
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of Amphissa. Exhausted and without having yet regained their senses, they fell down on the market and felt asleep scattered where they had fallen. The women of Amphissa, seeing that the Phocians were in the camp of the allies and seeing the presence of many soldiers of the. .
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He killed his daughter’s rapist despite him being Poseidon’s son (SUPER frowned upon, Ares went on trial, and was let go), because fuck the laws. This was an act of passion and love for his family.
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"At the time when usurpers from Phocis seized the sanctuary of Delphi and the Thebans declared the so-called sacred war on them, the women in the service of Dionysus, who are called the maenads, in a trance and wandering at night, did not notice that they were in the territory. .
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Eros replies, “This one is heavy, try it and you shall see”, when Ares takes it, he groans and demands Eros take it back. Aphrodite, who was watching this go down, smiled quietly. Eros presumably bound them in love here, though he did not seem to directly pierce either.
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When Hephaestus entraps Hera in a golden throne as punishment for her throwing him down Olympos, Zeus offered Aphrodite as a prize to whoever got Hephaestus to free his wife. Aphrodite sent her love Ares, hopeful he would prevail.
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In the myth of Aerëope, a lover of Ares gave birth, but died in the process, passionate Ares caused the child to live and still be able to take nutrients from the dead mother. Ares was given a positive title for this: Aphneios, ‘Abundant’.
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Hephaestus catches them one night in the golden net and demands Ares pays for his crime of adultery, Poseidon says “let him go dude, chill, jfc, I’ll make him pay you” (he does not say this, and Ares does not pay shit).
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Getting ahead of this one: that famous statue of Caesar going around? The right hand is reconstructed, most scholars assume he was holding a spear or sword, so… not a salute.
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“” There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus, and Laevius says:.
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@cremecut @Kusajishi_1 Aphrodite is only mentioned as a daughter of Zeus and Dione in later Homeric myth, in Hesiod’s older theogony she spawns from the seafoam after Ouranos is castrated. I’ve usually found Hesiod’s myth to be more well-known, but neither are wrong.
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⇢ ˗ˏˋ The birth of Erikhthonios, the King of Athens. -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈straight from… . Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 187 (trans. Aldrich)
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He also noticeably treats goddesses significantly better than other male deities, underlined and highlighted especially because of WHEN the myths were written.
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Ares stormed Hephaestus’s workshop, but his machines warded the war god of. Dionysos next approached Hephaestus and told him of the deal, which Hephaestus then willingly took.
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I’m kind of sick of how many Ancient Greek / Roman accounts on here are Nazis. Do I rebrand to one of those aesthetic accounts?.
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Ares is prayed to and asked for help in restraining anger and emotional regulation, which is why he is often also associated with mental health. This is because while passion and anger can be unruly and dangerous, it can also be incredibly powerful in a good way.
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🕊️.Wash off your Aphrodite statues , disrobe and dance nude at the beach , eat a lot , screw a lot ; have fun, and be safe ,, . Hail Aphrodite !!
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When he returns to Olympos to ‘claim his prize’, Aphrodite is noted to be standing aside the palace entrance with Ares, both beside themselves. Obviously, Aphrodite did not put up with this, and continued her original relationship with Ares.
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A lot of his worshippers look to him for this, in religious spaces he is most often worshipped as someone who helps with mental battles just as much as physical ones. And, fun fact, in modern times most of his worshippers ARE women.
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