#dionysusreligion

[loverofdoves]

lineart of a piece i'm working on of Lord Dionysus! i'm super happy with how it's turning out!

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Dionysos

Second half of the 2nd century

Roman copy after a Hellenistic original

Marble

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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[loverofdoves]

devotional acts to Lord Dionysus today! He has really been by my side recently with my turbulent mental health, i burned incense, lit a few candles, poured a libation, and gave a prayer of thanks.

Hail the Savior from Madness, Lord Dionysus!

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Dionysos-Bacchus

Roman; 2nd century AD

Dalmatia (Origin)

Bronze

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Red-figure Nolan Amphora with Dionysos

Greek, Attic; ca. 470–460 BC

Attributed to the Painter of London E342

Princeton University Art Museum

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Attic drinking bowl with Dionysos and Silen

ca. 480 BC

Makron Painter

Vulci, Italy (Finding Place)

Clay, red-figure

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Mosaic Panel: Dionysos with a Panther

50–79 AD

Nymphaeum (Origin)

Glass paste, opus tessellatum

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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Dionysos from the East pediment of the Parthenon

Classical Greek, 438 BC–432 BC

Pheidias (Sculptor)

Athens, Greece (Production place)

Parthenon, Greece (Findspot)

Marble

The British Museum

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Marble statue from the East pediment of the Parthenon (East pediment D). The East pediment showed the miraculous birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. Many of the figures from the central scene are now fragmentary or entirely lost.

This reclining figure almost certainly represents Dionysos, god of wine. He looked out from the pediment towards the corner and the chariot of Helios, god of the sun, rising at daybreak. His legs are bent, the left one drawn back behind the right. Over the rock on which the figure rests, a mantle is thrown, under which an animal skin is visible, its claws suggesting that it was a feline. Figure D is the only pediment sculpture to survive with its head intact. Still visible at the rear are traces of two braids across the nape of the neck. Both hands and feet are now missing, although the left foot was still seen and drawn by Carrey in 1674. The right foot was made separately and attached by means of a metal pin. Above the left foot is a hole for a metal attachment, perhaps an anklet. The statue has been identified as Dionysos, but Herakles and Theseus have also been suggested.

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Dionysus

Roman; Imperial, 2nd century

Italy, Rome (Place of Origin)

Marble

The Walters Art Museum

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Dionysus is seen in profile, tightly wrapped in his voluminous mantle, with his covered left arm bent and resting against his hip. He holds his scepter-like attribute in his right hand. His hairstyle, with two tight curls falling in front of each shoulder, and his curved, pointed beard are distinctly Archaistic. Numerous versions of the figure have been found in both marble and terracotta, often grouped with the god’s dancing female followers, known as maenads.

Image edited by me.

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Dionysus

4th century AD

Marble

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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[loverofdoves]

i hate doing these things but i need to do it

please like/reblog if you post stuff about

hellenic polytheism

(specifically aphrodite and dionysus)

witchcraft

divination

my dash is really dead y’all

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Dionysos-Bacchus

Roman; 2nd century AD

Dalmatia (Origin)

Bronze

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Other photo: 187496863674