Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Iridescent- throned #Aphrodite, deathless child of Zeus and weaver of wiles I beg you
do not crush my heart,
o lady, with longing
[...]
Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she does not love you, soon she will
even if she does not wish to." #Sappho 1
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"There's also a statue of #Venus on #Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus."
Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.8.2
🏛 Herm of Aphroditos at the Nationalmuseum in #Stockholm
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Out of the sea was rising lovely-crowned Kypris [#Aphrodite], foam-blossoms still upon her hair; and round her hovered smiling witchingly #Himeros, and danced the Kharites [Graces] lovely-tressed."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5.72
🏛 Little Aphrodite in a sea shell, terracotta, Museo archeologico provinciale Francesco Ribezzo, Brindisi
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (the foam-born) because she grew amid the foam, and well-crowned Kythereia because she reached Kythera, and Kyprogenes because she was born in billowy Kypros, and Philommedes (Genital-Loving) because sprang from the members."
Hesiod, Theogony 176
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"To Sea-set Kypros the moist breath of Zephryos (the West Wind) wafted her [#Aphrodite] over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted #Horai (Seasons) welcomed her joyously. They clothed her with heavenly garments."
Homeric Hymn 6
🏛 The birth of Aphrodite, marble relief, 460-450 BCE, Palazzo Altemps, #Rome
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Gods and men call her Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (foam-born) because she grew amid the foam, and well-crowned Kythereia because she reached Kythera, and Kyprogenes because she was born in billowy Kypros, and Philommedes (Genital-Loving) because sprang from the member."
🏛 Terracotta figurine of #Aphrodite in a sea shell, Antikensammlung Berlin