Erotic Mythology @[email protected]

The crowd has spoken! Free for #PrideMonth:

Aphrodite / Helen of Sparta / Paris of Troy
https://patreon.com/posts/33351418/

Down Where it's Wetter (Amphitrite / Hera)
https://patreon.com/posts/38707001

Enjoy! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@AimeeMaroux #PrideMonth is around the corner and again I'll make some of my queer #GreekMythology #erotica free to read for the whole month, decided by popular vote.
Which story do you want me to unlock?
#LGBTQ #indieauthor
https://erotica.social/@AimeeMaroux/108358956640465691

Iris works tirelessly to fulfil her Queen's every need... 😏

Plain text version
https://patreon.com/posts/64501595/

Illustrated version for $10+ patrons with artwork by @[email protected]

https://patreon.com/posts/illustrated-hera-63790483

#GreekMythology #Iris #Hera #lesfic #erotica #IndieArtist #IndieAuthor #Patreon

It's the #DayOfSelene / Luna's Day / #Monday!

#Selene was identified with #Artemis by Aischylos and later poets.

"The Cretan, Siproites, had also been turned into a woman for having seen Artemis bathing when out hunting."
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphosis 17

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology #transition #transfem

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!

#Helios is reducing his work hours. NOT riding the sun wagon: #Apollon of whom "the ancient poets tell their tales of the love he bore Phorbas, Hyacinthus, and Admetus, as well as the Sicyonian Hippolytus"
Plutarch, Numa 4

#PrideMonth #gay #GreekMythology #LindaSejic

Illustration of Apollo riding his swan by the wonderful Linda Sejic 🥰
Read #Punderworld here: https://tinyurl.com/pundwrl
Join her #Patreon here: https://patreon.com/sigeel

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!

"If he [Ampelos] ever conversed with the Satyrs, if he joined with a yearsmate hunter to follow chase, #Dionysos jealous held him back, lest another be struck like himself with a heartbewitching shaft"
Dionysiaka 10

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology

Despite the restoration you'll have to use your imagination but this erotic fresco (scene V) from #Pompeii depicts two women and their fannies in a possibly #lesbian scene.

#FannyFriday #PrideMonth #ancienthistory #History

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Sweet mother I cannot weave my cloth,
I've been overpowered with longing for a girl* thanks to slender #Aphrodite."
#Sappho 102

*παῖδος, child / youth of unspecified gender

#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #GreekMythology

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

There was the Dardanian boy, beloved pride of Zeus' bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

#DayOfZeus #Zeus #PrideMonth #GreekMythology

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

#Ares' grandson Hippolytos was disgusted by sex and marriage, shuning the bed of love and wanting nothing to do with marriage. Instead, he honoured #Artemis, thinking her the greatest of divinities.

#DayOfAres #PrideMonth #aroace #GreekMythology

It's the #DayOfSelene / Luna's Day / #Monday!

#Selene was identified with #Artemis by Aischylos and later poets.

"Zeus, assuming the form of Artemis, followed the girl [Kallisto] as if to aid her in hunting, and embraced her when out of sight of the rest."
Amphis, an Athenian comedian quoted in Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.1

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!

#Helios' longest work day approaches, the #solstice.
Meanwhile #Apollon was honoured as Philesios, Apollon of the Kiss, because:

"When Branchos was a youth he one day met Apollon in the woods and kissed the god."

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!

Phanokles, a 3rd century BCE erotic poet, writes:

"Mountain-roaming #Dionysos saw shining Adonis,
and carried him off to holy Kypris."
Phanokles, Fragment 3

Cameo of Dionysos in a chariot, 1st century BCE

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Then in anger divine #Aphrodite addressed her [Helen]:
'Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you.'"
Iliad 3.395

This scene was beautifully illustrated by #IndependentArtist Chotomy:
https://chotomy.tumblr.com/post/656083444509622272/chotomy-chotomy-chotomy-lest-i-drop-you-in

#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #Aphrodite #HelenOfTroy #GreekMythology

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

Cyclops: With this Ganymedes here I shall go off to bed with greater glory than with the Graces.
Silenos: What, am I Zeus's boy Ganymedes, Cyclops?
Cyclops: Yes, by #Zeus, whom I am abducting from Dardanus' house.

#DayOfZeus #PrideMonth #GreekMythology

It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!

"Assesos sends a royal boy, Antheus, as hostage, a stripling lovelier than Spring's first joy. [...] Antheus is beloved of #Hermes above, but Phobios' young wife feels guilty lust for him."
Erotika pathemata 14

#PrideMonth #GreekMythology

Me: I only have one day to finish this presentation, I should get cracking!

Also me: *does literally everything else*

#writerslife

The crowd has spoken! Free for #PrideMonth:

Aphrodite / Helen of Sparta / Paris of Troy
https://patreon.com/posts/33351418/

Down Where it's Wetter (Amphitrite / Hera)
https://patreon.com/posts/38707001

Enjoy! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@AimeeMaroux #PrideMonth is around the corner and again I'll make some of my queer #GreekMythology #erotica free to read for the whole month, decided by popular vote.
Which story do you want me to unlock?
#LGBTQ #indieauthor
https://erotica.social/@AimeeMaroux/108358956640465691