Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 
"May Kypris [#Aphrodite] bless you with a good wife, Pallas [#Athena] endue you with wisdom, and #Ares with fearlessness."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 9.59
Campanian bowl with #Mars and #Venus, 250-150 BCE
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Aphrodite shows Artemis her new invention: the strap-on 
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 
"Kallimakhos, too, says that Aphrodite hid Adonis in a lettuce-bed, since the poets mean by this allegory that constant eating of lettuce produces impotence."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.69b
#Aphrodite and #Adonis, Fragment of a Plaster Relief, 3rd–2nd century BCE Greece
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday
"Ares though he be of stubborn steel yields to soft Kypris [Aphrodite]."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.238
Roman Mosaic, Courtship of #Ares and #Aphrodite, ca. 3rd century CE
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#Aphrodite Kallipygos, our Lady of Dat Ass, demands your attention!
Edit: Typo
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"[The Horai] adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Horai wear themselves."
Homeric Hymn 6
#Aphrodite figurine, 3rd century BCE, Dardania
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http://ancient-anatolia.blogspot.com/2011/07/aphrodite-of-mount-ida.html
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday
"What wonder if murderous #Eros shoots those arrows that breathe fire, and laughs bitterly with cruel eyes! Is not #Ares his mother's lover, and #Hephaistus her husband, the fire and the sword sharing her?"
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.180
#Aphrodite, Ares, Eros #neoclassical gold pendant
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In April we celebrate the #Veneralia feast of #Venus #Aphrodite, and April 1st is also a feast of Egyptian counterpart #Hathor. Archaeologists have found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis that mentions Hathor, #Antinous, #Hadrian, Empress Sabina and intersex deity #Hapi.
Do you love #Aphrodite? She is the patroness of my writing and there are more than just a few stories I wrote about her spreading and enjoying love and lust...
Read them here:
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/aphrodite?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"A robe out-shining the brightness of fire, [...] which shimmered like the moon over her tender breasts, a marvel to see. Also she wore twisted brooches and shining earrings in the form of flowers; and round her soft throat were lovely necklaces"
Homeric Hymn 5
#Aphrodite, painted casket, Roman Egypt, 250-300 CE
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"I will sing of stately #Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Kypros. There the moist breath of Zephyros the westwind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea."
Homeric Hymn 6
Statuette of #Venus Anadyomene as she emerges from the ocean, 1st century CE, Condate Riedonum (Rennes), France
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"Her [#Aphrodite] who restrains the bloody hands of rough Mars [#Ares], who brings peace to warring nations and holds plenty in her rich horn, mild goddess."
Seneca, Medea 62
#Venus and #Mars, 62–79 CE #Fresco from #Pompeii, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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9 March is the wedding anniversary of #Aphrodite and #Adonis, with whom #Antinous is oft identified. This is a good night for Love Magic and for reaffirming commitments. See how here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/we-celebrate-wedding-of-venusaphrodite.html Art photography: #Farnese #Antinoos/Adonis by #AndréDurand
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
Kypris [Aphrodite] to the Muses: "Honour #Aphrodite, girls, or I will arm Eros against you."
And the Muses to Kypris: "Tell that to #Ares. Your little boy has no wings to fly to us."
Greek Anthology, 9.39
Attic marble votive relief to Ares and Aphrodite, second half of the 5th century BCE
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@AimeeMaroux I think we need to invoke #Aphrodite far more oftenthan we already do
And any other deities that are connected to qualities we need to draw upon during these bleak times
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"She lay down at his side and conceived #Eros, who partly because he is naturally a lover of the beautiful, and because #Aphrodite is herself beautiful, and also because he was born on her birthday, is her follower and attendant."
Plato, Symposium 178
Aphrodite, Eros, and Erotes, Roman fresco, #Pompeii
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#Naukratis #Antinous / #Apollo head Berlin's #AltesMuseum. Crowned with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite / #Venus. #Antinoos and #Hadrian visited Naukratis, #Heracleion / #Hierakleion and #Canopus in 130 AD. Grieving Hadrian returned alone to Canopus in February 131. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/grieving-hadrian-returns-to-canopus.html
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday
"Over the silver on dancing dolphins ride guileful Eros and laughing Himeros (Desire), and the chorus of bow-backed fish plunging in the waves sports with Paphia [Aphrodite] where she swims."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 57
Marble statue of #Aphrodite with a dolphin
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