#HappyHalloween, Fediverse 🎃 #Ares represents many nasty things as the God of War and he begets Fear (Phobos) and Terror (Deimos).
"Warlike #Mars [Ares] invented new modes of strife and a thousand forms of death. From this source streams of blood stained all lands and the sea grew red."
Seneca, Phaedra 540
Ares-Mars embraced by his love Aphrodite-Venus with a dog at their feet. The club in his hand is usually part of the iconography of #Herakles so it could also be a fresco depicting #Hercules and Megaera or Deïaneira. Does anyone know if it's Mars of Hercules?
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
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.
I had an excellent experience presenting about the Technical Advisor, Technical Specialist, amd Technical Coordinator positions at #ARRL yesterday for San Diego #ares
I'm in the attached photo, taken by Bruce Kripton.
About 50 in-person attendees, lots of excellent #hamradio questions, and I'll be back with a followup.
San Diego Section is one of 18 ARRL Sections without a TC.
A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘
🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.
Aphrodite is pouring a libation into the phiale (libation bowl) held by her lover Ares over an altar. A servant or child stands behind her on the left.
🏛️ Attic votive relief of Aphrodite and Ares. Marble. Dated to the 5th century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum in #Venice.
"Phaethon [#Helios] laughed, because #Ares in the seafight of [#Dionysos against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of #Hephaistos, as once before he fled from his chains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403
🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.
I'm Ted, KC0URT (amateur) and WRNU773 (GMRS). I am active in our local radio club and ARES organization. I am just learning Mastodon after never learning any related apps - clueless about hashtags and @s. #introduction#hamradio#amateurradio#digitalhamradio#ARES#gmrs
Our quarterly, in-person meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne. The focus will be a "go kit" show and tell. #HamRadio#ARES#EmComm#EmergencyCommunication
Meet this red jasper #intaglio from #Wales depicting the Roman god #Mars standing in the nude, wearing only a crested helmet and the folds of a cloak over one arm. He cradles a long spear and holds a sheathed sword with its belt.
🏛️ Mars, Roman intaglio, Amgueddfa #Cymru - National Museum Wales
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is artworks featuring mythology. There are, of course, countless depictions of mythological scenes from ancient times. Some myths, in fact, are ONLY known through artwork, for example the drinking contest between #Herakles and #Dionysos.
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There are quite a lot of artworks I love that were made in our modern day, especially from independent creators who just love #mythology. It is impossible to pick just one so here are four of my favourite artworks from contemporary artists.
Meet this Roman stone statue of the god #Mars, found in #York. It was carved from local sandstone in the 4th century CE. #Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia that became the city of York. Eboracum was a busy port and a provincial capital with residents from all over the Roman Empire.
Just emailed ARRL again, to say I want to give them money but am insulted they have so little respect for my values of inclusivity that they didn’t even reply to a comment on gender neutrality.
Tetrassarion #coin dated 162/163 CE. The reverse depicts Ares fully dressed in his armour with helmet, shield, and spear. Facing him stands Aphrodite of the Pudicitia type, holding one hand to her genitals and one hand to her breasts.
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is healing. The God of Healing is #Apollon but there are other gods who share in a subset of his power. Apollon's son #Asklepios famously brought dead people back to life. Deified after his untimely death by Zeus' thunderbolt, he received a cult of his own, the Temples of Asklepios serving as hospitals. Asklepios had children of his own, among them Panacea (Cure-all), and Hygieia (Health).
But he is not the only healing god associated with Apollon.
An older god of healing who appears in the #Iliad as the Healer of the Gods is #Paian. In the Iliad, Paian heals #Ares after the latter is injured by #Diomedes and #Athena through medicine that produces instant relief. #Hades is healed in a similar fashion after #Herakles' arrow (thankfully without hydra blood) pierces him.
Paian is later reduced to an epithet of both #Apollon and his son #Asklepios.
A god that is not usually associated with medicine but has a healing aspect is #Dionysos.
Roman intaglio of #Mars, the God of War. It is made from red jasper and shows the god in heroic nudidty wearing only his crested helmet and his arms, a long spear and a sheathed sword.
🏛️ Roman Britain, today in the Museum #Wales, Amgueddfa #Cymru.