Ariadne (they/them)

anyone know a Greek pottery expert who's super indulgent of non-professional nerds? I have a hypothesis/might have noticed something and I wanna talk to someone in the know about it 😂

The exquisite 'Cup of the Ptolemies', an utterly stunning kantharos carved from a single piece of sardonyx, decorated with Bacchic imagery. C. 50 BCE - 50CE The kantharos seems to be an attribute of Bacchus/Dionysus, the god of wine, who was associated with vegetation and fertility.

Bacchante https://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-leighton/bacchante-1895

2,000-year-old Bacchante statue found at Tusculum could be one of Cicero’s lost sculptures A marble statue found at the ancient Roman city of Tusculum could solve a mystery that has lasted for more than 2,000 years. Researchers believe the sculpture... More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/bacc...

Tête du Jeune Bacchus, Rome, Ier siècle après J.-C. Photo © Getty Museum.

The fascinating world of ancient #glass comes to life in this striking #Roman pitcher. Its handle ends in an appliqué featuring the head of a Bacchant, a devoted follower of Bacchus, the god of wine, making it a fitting and evocative decoration for a vessel designed to pour wine. 🧵1/2

‘Portrait of the Hon. George Lamb, as The Infant Bacchus.’ #Painting (detail) by Maria Cosway [18th century] #art

Lambert Sigisbert Adam the Elder. Bacchus.

Angelica Kauffmann, "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus" (oil paint on canvas), 1774 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA)

Bacchus and Ariadne https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459236

Mosaic Fragment with a Dionysiac Procession. Date: A.D. late 2nd–early 3rd century Culture: Gerasa (Jordan) Period: Roman Mosaic: limestone and glass tesserae

Kantharos https://collections.artsmia.org/art/6033/

While tigers are not native to most of Europe, at best coming to the Black Sea's eastern edges, tigers have been part of European art since Antiquity: Dionysus is sometimes depicted in Hellenistic art as riding a tiger or a chariot driven by tigers. #FairytaleTuesday

Dionysus Riding a Leopard, Delos, Greece, 180 AD

The fresco shows the mythological romance of Dionysus and Ariadne. Photo: Pompeii - Parco Archeologico | Pompeii Archaeological Park.

In the #DomusAurea of #Nero, low-relief stucco links military power and divine indulgence. An armed figure stands in a niche while #Dionysiac dancers leap along a delicate pediment above. Here is a theatrical vision of empire: you need strength to bolster otium. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺

The incredible Villanovan lake-dwelling settlement of Gran Carro has yielded parts of a vertical, warp-weighted loom, a new textile fragment, and a basket that was used for producing cheese or other milk products. #AncientBluesky 🏺 www.storicang.it/a/piu-antico...

Completed restoration of a ceiling fresco that once adorned a banquet hall in the House with Bakery in Pompeii’s Regio IX has been revealed. Decorative fragments of the ceiling depict the union of the god Dionysus and Ariadne. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

if anyone has any Dionysus related monographs to recommend I am basically collecting them 😂 related topics are going on the list too but bonus points if it mentions him in the title

if anyone has any Dionysus related monographs to recommend I am basically collecting them 😂 related topics are going on the list too but bonus points if it mentions him in the title

This is an Etruscan sarcophagus lid showing a touching, naturalistic representation of a middle aged husband & wife. They lie in bed, toes poking out, holding each other tenderly. It’s a lovely piece but tinged with sadness as it’s a coffin lid & their days of embracing in bed are over 🏛️📷 Boston MFA

the reason I always end up disappearing for awhile is the app itself pissing me off and it JUST occurred to me today to try a third party app 😂

Engraved Ring with Dancing Maenad 400–350 B.C. Unknown artist/maker Engraved gold rings were often used as seals, but were also decorative items of jewellery. The leaf-shaped bezel was also the most common form for rings in the late Classical period. #History #HistoryMatters

We view sarcophagi under museum lights, forgetting their true context. This #Antonine masterpiece from the via Aurelia Antica was made for a public funeral, then hidden in a dark tomb, seen only by lamplight during family festivals like the Parentalia. #SarcophagusSaturday #AncientBluesky 🏺 #Rome

Lady Hamilton as Ariadne https://www.wikiart.org/en/louise-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun/lady-hamilton-as-ariadne-1790

These types of floating figures - bodies so expressive, with dramatically billowing drapery - are a hallmark of the art from the former Greek colonies. Greek was still spoken in Pompeii during Roman rule (Oscan, too), alongside Latin. 🏺 3/ House of the Vettii, Pompeii. 📸 me

✨Dionysos and friends✨ This #MosaicMonday we celebrate the divine Dionysos who here appears with Nike, replete with wings and chariot of big cats (likely panthers given his form!), and a figure identified as a bacchant (maenad).

This closeup of a Greek gold diadem reveals its richly worked repoussé decoration. In the center are the figures of Ariadne and Dionysos seated on a blooming and scrolling acanthus, each holding a thyrsus. Said to have come from a tomb at Madytos, in Thrace. #MetMuseum 🏺 ca. 330-300 BCE. 📸 me

Marble relief sculpture (50-40 BC). A maenad and a satyr #dance for Dionysus. & #ReliefWednesday🎉 Work of Hellenistic workshops. It belonged to the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimo. 📸 source National Prado Museum #AncientBlueSky

SEMELE!!! Dionysus' mom. First pic is before she died, Second is her corpse after the whole Zeus' lighting thing and third is her after her ressurection and elevation to godhood.

🪷 #Takeyourdogtoworkday 💙🐕💙 The #Lanuvium basrelief shows #Antinous as #Dionysus or #Aristaeus #Silvanus, harvesting grapes, as a dog looks up at him adoringly. Its inscription says #Antinoos ' birthday is Nov 27th. #AntoniusSubia explains it in full: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... 🪷

✨A Meditative Dionysus✨ This #MosaicMonday we feel the contemplative mood of Dionysus, represented in this C4th CE portrait from Daphne (Antioch), Antakya (modern Türkiye). With hints of a leopard skin and and abundant wreath, we wonder if the party is about to start or is truly over!

#AllMetalMonday 🏺 Larger than life-size #Roman bronze bust of Dionysus, C1 BC from House of Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. Delicate crown of flowers in his hair no doubt indicative of dissolute life - or visit to San Francisco? In Pompeii Antiquarium.

A pebble #Mosaic floor depicting Papposilenus holding a rhyton (drinking vessel). Papposilenus was tutor to and a (drinking) companion of Dionysus. Hellenistic period. 📸 Us, Archaeological Museum of Corfu #skystorians #ancientbluesky #AncientGreece #archaeology #classicsbluesky #MosaicMonday

Found in a shipwreck off the French coast near Cannes, this Bronze Silenus head decorated a large drinking bowl. Silenus is crowned with ivy & grapes - befitting a friend of Dionysus 🍇 📸 Us #Roman Museum in Nice 1st C. BCE. #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

#MosaicMonday with the Festoon mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. The festoon is decorated with masks, leaves and fruit Now in the MANN. Those masks summing up Mondays rather well. #AncientBlueSky🏺

Clothing was usually homemade, and the same piece of homespun fabric could serve as a garment, shroud, or blanket. Depiction of an ancient Greek loom. #amreading #amwriting #books #greekmyths #mythology #bookshelves #booksky #AncientBluesky #GreekMyths #Books #GreekTales #ThessalonikiMuseum

Oh whoa I'm 36 now