It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
This solid bronze statuette of the Roman god #Jupiter (associated with #Zeus) was probably part of the domestic furnishings of a Roman 'domus' or 'villa'. The highest deity in the Roman pantheon, he is the god of international relations and guarantees the observation of treaties.
🏛️ Bronze statuette, #ancientRome, 1st century CE. Today in the Museu d’Art Medieval, #Barcelona.
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A late #DayOfZeus entry today because I didn't manage to post before work:
It's the birth of #Athena: The tiny goddess jumps from #Zeus' head in full armour!
On the left, #Hermes and a rare bearded #Apollon watch the scene. On the right, an unknown goddess and #Ares look on.
🏛️ Black-figure vase painting dated about 540 BCE. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
#Zeus, disguised as a #satyr, seduces Antiope, daughter of the river god Asopos or of Nykteus, the king of Thebes. Antiope fled in fear of her father and was abducted by the hero Epopeus, eventually giving birth to two sons, Amphion by Zeus and Zethus by Epopeus.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Painting of the theft of Fire: #Zeus and his eagle and his lover #Ganymedes are all asleep. Meanwhile, #Prometheus steals fire from the thunderbolt in Zeus' hand.
🏛️ The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, dated 1878 CE.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Humourous Roman #mosaic of #Ganymedes and #Zeus as a heron with a sponge on a stick, commony used by the Romans to clean the bum after going to the toilet. But if you know that Ganymedes is Zeus' lover, a different reason for sponging his genitals comes to mind 😏
🏛️ Dated 2nd century CE, discovered in Antiochia ad Cragum, Turkey
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Meet the Jupiter of Cumae made of marble from Thassos. Cumae is famous for the Sybel of Cumae whose alleged cave is a tourist attraction. The statue probably used to be housed in the Temple of #Zeus which was turned into a basilica after Christianisation.
🏛️ #Jupiter of Cuma, 1st century CE, today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples
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The inspiration for this sculpture of #Jupiter was the monumental gold and ivory statue of #Zeus created by the Greek sculptor Pheidias (active 470-420 BCE) for Zeus's temple at #Olympia. It was renowned in antiquity as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and numerous sculptors copied it.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[Zeus] made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia."
Hesiod, Theogony 921
🏛️ #Hera and #Zeus, marble relief from Temple E in #Selinunte, dated ca. 450 BCE. Today in the Museo archeologico regionale di #Palermo.
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Meet this beautiful Zeus Keraunios, Zeus of the Thunderbolt, from Apollonia. In the Archaic and Early Classical periods, numerous bronze statuettes of the thunderbolt-wielding Zeus appear at his cult centres of Olympia, Dodona, and elsewhere in Greece and other territories.
🏛️ Zeus statuette from the Greek colony of #Apollonia in Illyria
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Figurine of Zeus Keraunos (Zeus of the Thunderbolt) from Dodona, one of his major cult centres. Homer describes Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Priestesses and priests interpreted the rustling of the oak leaves in his sacred grove for divination.
🏛️ Zeus Keraunos bronze figurine from #Dodona, National Archaeological Museum #Athens
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There was a beauiful boy named Aëtos ("eagle"), a friend and playmate of #Zeus while he was growing up on Crete. Suspecting that Zeus was in love with him, Hera turned him into an eagle.
The story survives in Sophokles frag 320 & Servius' Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid.
🏛️ Zeus with eagle, tondo from a black-figure cup, ca 560 BCE, Louvre, Paris
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"He [#Zeus] made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried."
Fulgentius, Mythologiarum Libri III
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture of Zeus-Iupiter, #AsiaMinor, 2nd - 3rd century CE
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#Zeus pursuing #Ganymedes who is playing with a hoop. Hoops (krikoi), were probably made of bronze, iron, or copper, and were driven with a stick called the "elater". Hoop driving was practiced in the gymnasium and was also used for tumbling & dance with different techniques.
🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes, red-figure vase painting, National Archaeological Museum #Athens
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Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymedes by Zeus. Several people are standing around when #Zeus lifts up the Trojan prince into the air but they can't do anything to stop it.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet these superb golden earrings consisting of a honeysuckle palmette below which hangs a finely worked 3D figure of #Ganymedes in the clutches of #Zeus, who has assumed the guise of an eagle to carry him off to Mount Olympos. The airborne theme is ingeniously adapted here as earrings hang freely in space.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[The aigis] a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and the linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast—a severed head rolling its eyes."
Vergilius, Aeneid 8.435
🎨 Zeus-Jupiter's head crowned with laurel and ivy on a Roman sardonyx cameo.