For the last #FannyFriday in #PrideMonth I have a #sapphic art piece that is unfortunately quite hard to decipher. It's a #lesbian sex scene from the suburban baths of #Pompeii where the sexy frescoes in the changing room were probably an aid to remember where you left your stuff. This is scene number V. The patches of dark colour are remains of the repainting of the wall.
Dated 62 to 79 CE.
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
Let us celebrate the last #PhallusThursday in #PrideMonth with one of my favourite #homoerotic art pieces. It's a vase painting depicting some kind of festive scenario that scholarship hasn't conclusively indentified, to my best knowledge. Two young men are enjoying the festivities especially intimately.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[#Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty Zeus"
Sophokles, Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios
🏛️ Zeus seduces Ganymede, detail from a hydria attributed to the Eupolis Painter
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"My own opinion is that #Hermes gave #Amphion these gifts, both the [magical] lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him.
And the chlamys he wears, perhaps that also came from Hermes; for its colour does not remain the same but changes and takes on all the hues of the rainbow."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1.10
This colorful picture book is a celebration of love, understanding, openness and diversity. It is beautiful and powerful read, perfect for #pridemonth !
"[Dionysos] cut the thickest branch from a fig tree, smoothed and crafted it into a male member, fixed it to the grave, exposed his buttocks, lowered himself and inserted it. In his horniness he moved his buttocks to suffer from the wood what he had promised."
Arnobius of Sicca Adversus gentes 5.28
🏛 Roman intaglio ring depicting #Dionysos with a winged phallus
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
A jolly groupsex scene with various pairings for another #PrideMonth#PhallusThursday: two young men with a woman, two young men with each other, a mature man with a young man and a young man and a mature man with a mature or even old man. Love is love (or lust is lust).
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"And Dardanos' child, Ganymedes, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings." #Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
🏛️ Neoclassical relief of #Zeus and #Ganymedes, wall decoration in Hamburger Kunsthalle.
A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaimed author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle . Fans of the musical “Kinky Boots” and Byron Lane’s Big Gay Wedding will have their hearts stolen by Becoming Ted !
For the first #FannyFriday in #PrideMonth I offer you a rare depiction of women loving women in Graeco-Roman art. These ladies are engaged in some good old oral 👌
The 1920s. When wealthy American adolescent Matthew Cameron moves to France following his parents' divorce, he struggles to assimilate to his new surroundings. But when a new tennis instructor -- Michel Garnier -- arrives at Matthew's boarding school, a forbidden relationship develops that will have unforeseen consequences.
Happy #PrideMonth ! The #SPFBO group has put together a collection of 48 books featuring queer rep of all kinds, across all years of SPFBO! Some have #LGBTQ main characters, while others (like mine) have side-character queer rep. Some are on sale, some are full price.