#erigone

[gachagachaart]

[eucanthos]

Tim Walker   (UK, 1970)

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The Dress Lamp Tree, 2004, England (b/w here). Photograph 104 × 127 cm (40 9/10 × 50 in) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

So cool to have stumbled on this image coinciding with Erigone myth and the Aiora (the Swing) ancient festival, where virgins swung from the trees of Athens.

thnx decadentkittenpizza

[theia-mania-comics]

Queen of the Dead 125

Here is Erigone from Anthesteria, looking a bit better than when we last saw her.

[thegodwhocums]

Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 2

@paganquestionmark you are right! theoi.com has a mention of Erigone in the Anthesteria observations. I had learned years ago to incorporate her but the teacher I learned that from turned out to be a shitty dude and when I couldn't immediately find other documentation to include her in the holiday, I assumed it was another thing he had just made up 🙃 sorry for my weird tags

[gracchisuggestions]

Myths we haven't got a play of: the Mundane Oresteia, wherein Orestes' half-sister takes his butt to court for killing her parents.

[books0977]

Erigone Conquered (Erigone vaincue) (1745). François Boucher (French, 1703-1770). Oil on canvas. The Wallace Collection.

As described by Ovid, Bacchus, disguised as a bunch of grapes, deceives the nymph Erigone. Originally the painting formed part of a set of four representing the Seasons, all of which were shaped in the same manner. From their shape and low viewpoints it is clear that they were painted as overdoors to be inserted into decorative panelling. 

[random-brushstrokes]

Georges Girardot - Erigone, Daughter of Icarus (c.1890)

[whoisjaylamm]

Lore of the Constellations: Canis Minor

Winter has some of the best and most recognizable constellations. Let's take a look at Canis Minor the Small Dog to see how he got up into the sky.

Like Canis Major, Canis Minor is often regarded as one of the hunting hounds of Orion.  They appear to follow him across the sky as the Earth turns.  However, Canis Minor actually represents Maera, a dog of Icarius, the famed wine maker. Continue reading

[antlering]

Hail to Erigone, starry-eyed and dangling, with Maera loyal at her heels.

From Britannica:

Erigone, in Greek mythology, daughter of Icarius, the hero of the Attic deme (township) of Icaria. Her father, who had been taught by the god Dionysus to make wine, gave some to several shepherds, who became intoxicated. Their companions, thinking they had been poisoned, killed Icarius and buried him under a tree. Erigone, guided by her dog Maera, found his grave and hanged herself on the tree. Maera jumped into a well and drowned. Dionysus sent a plague on the land, and all the maidens of Athens, in a fit of madness, hanged themselves. Icarius, Erigone, and Maera were set among the stars as Boötes (or Arcturus), Virgo, and Procyon (Canis Minor, the Lesser Dog); to propitiate Icarius and Erigone, the festival called Aiora (the Swing) was instituted. During this festival various small images (Latin oscilla) were swung from trees, and offerings of fruit were made.

[thegodwhocums]

well this is weird

I've been observing the Anthesteria for several years and am working now on preparing the outline for this year's celebration

and historically I've always incorporated the story of Erigone as part of Anthesteria

you honor her by swinging on swings or hanging dolls from trees, to commemorate her suicide by hanging (and whoever we may have lost that year, since queer suicide is what it is)

except now I'm reading through my usual sources and I can't find that connection?

like the myth exists - and commemorating it with dolls and swinging existed - but the occasion was called the Aiora

and the Italian Wikipedia page (of all places) does suggest that there might have been related swinging on the third day of Anthesteria but it also might have been unrelated to Erigone at all

what the hell

was this an extrapolation of the Piety Posse??? is that the only place I heard it, Dver and Sannion and those fuckers?

[a-gnosis]

Added a scene with Hades and Erigone. I wasn’t quite pleased with how Erigone more or less disappeared from the story after Hades brought her to the Underworld, without any mention of what they were going to do with her.

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

ICARIUS & ERIGONE

In Greek mythology, Icarius was an Athenian man who was instructed in the art of winemaking by the god Dionysus when he first arrived in the country. Icarius shared the gift with his countrymen, but was stoned to death by a group of drunken shepherds who thought they had been poisoned. His daughter Erigone and faithful hound searched for him and, when they found his body, Erigone hung herself from a tree and the dog leapt into a well. Dionysus was infuriated by their deaths and, after transferring the three to the stars as the constellations Bootes, Virgo and Canis Major, inflicted the land with drought and drove the young maidens mad, causing them to also hang themselves. Following the advise of an oracle, the Athenians instituted a festival in honour of the dead heroes and so appeased the wrath of the god.

[theia-mania-comics]

Anthesteria 155.

And this is the end of Anthesteria. The rest of Hades and Persephone’s story will hopefully be told in my next comic, with the working title Queen of the Dead. But it will take some time before I can start drawing on it, since I first have some editing to do on Anthesteria.

Thank you to all my wonderful readers for your support. It really means a lot to me. <3

[greekromangods]

Bacchus & Ariadne / Bacchus & Erigone

1773

Johann Lorenz Wilhelm Räntz (1733–1776), Johann David Räntz (1729–1783)

Stucco, gold plated

Neue Kammern, Sanssouci

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[themaskuponthevines]

Erigone feels