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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"#Zeus, though your ears be ever full of the fears of suppliants or the thanks of those whose prayers you have heard, hearken to me too and grant me by a true promise that this be the end of my exile, and that I may dwell in my native land, my long labours over."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 9.7

🏛️ #Jupiter from Piandimeleto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche, Ancona

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"If anyone blame me because, a skilled servant of Eros, I go to the chase, my eyes armed with birdlime to catch ladies, let him know that #Zeus and #Hades and the Lord of the Sea [#Poseidon] were slaves of violent desire. If the gods are such and they bid men follow their example, what wrong do I do in learning their deeds?"
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.100

🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman intaglio

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"Upon the altar of Zeus Polieus [Urban Zeus] they place barley mixed with wheat and leave it unguarded. The ox, which they keep already prepared for sacrifice, goes to the altar and partakes of the grain. One of the priests they call the ox-slayer."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.24.4

🏛️ #Zeus on a coin from #Sicily, 3rd century BCE

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"Zeus, king of the gods, grants you triumph, to kill Kyknos, and to strip away his glorious armour. But another thing I will say to you now, O best of all men. After you have robbed Kyknos of the sweetness of life, you must leave him where he is, and his armour with him, and yourself keep your eye on manslaughtering Ares"
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles

🏛️ #Herakles & #Kyknos with #Zeus

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"The surname Homagyrios (the Assembler) was given to #Zeus because in this place Agamemnon assembled the most eminent men in Greece, in order that they might consult together how to make war on the empire of Priamos [of Troy]."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.24.2

🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze figure from Paramythia, 100-199 CE

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"If #Zeus still carried off mortal boys from earth to the sky to be cup bearer of the sweet nectar, an eagle would sooner have borne my lovely Agrippa on his wings to the service of the immortals,
Yes, by yourself I swear it. Son of Kronos, Father of the World, if you look on him you will at once find fault with the Phrygian boy [#Ganymedes]."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 12.194

🏛️ Rome, 1st century BCE

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"#Zeus sacrificed a bull to #Helios and to Ouranos and to Gaia; and in connection with each of the rites there was revealed to him what was the will of the gods in the affair, the omens indicating the victory of the gods."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.71.2

🏛️ #Jupiter of Cuma, second half of 1st century CE, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong hand."
Hesiod, Theogony

🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze statuette, 1st century CE, Museu Episcopal de Vic

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"To Tros in turn there were born 3 sons unfaulted, Ilos, Assarakos, and godlike Ganymede who was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the gods."
Homer, Iliad 20. 232

🏛️ #Ganymedes abducted by #Zeus, Roman #mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, 2nd century CE

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

It was the #Theogamia on Monday, the anniversary of the marriage of Zeus Teleios and Hera Teleia.

"The Moirai (Fates) formerly united Olympian Hera to the King [Zeus] who governs the gods from the summit of his inaccessible throne. Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaios!"
Aristophanes, Birds 1720

🏛️ #Hera and #Zeus, Temple E in Selinunte, ca 450 BCE

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"He [Zeus] took Liber [Dionysos] from her womb, and gave him to Nysus to be cared for. For this reason he is called Dionysus, and also 'the one with two mothers'."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167

🏛️ #Zeus and Baby #Dionysos, red-figure vase detail, Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2737 - Attic red-figure volute krater by the Altamura Painter

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"He [Zeus] took Liber [Dionysos] from her womb, and gave him to Nysus to be cared for. For this reason he is called Dionysus, and also 'the one with two mothers'."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167

🏛️ #Zeus and Baby #Dionysos, red-figure vase detail, Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2737 - Attic red-figure volute krater by the Altamura Painter

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"The rich-haired Nymphai received him [Dionysos] in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals."
Homeric Hymn 26 to Dionysos

🏛️ #Dionysos Nativity, Museum of Naples

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