It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 
"I swear by the cluster-bearing delight of Dionysos' vine."
Euripides, Bacchae 535
Roman marble sculpture 2 century CE, Temple of #Dionysos at Cyrene, Libya
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
"[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
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
"Receive this god [#Dionysos] . . . For he is great in other respects, and they say this too of him, as I hear, that he gives to mortals the vine that puts an end to grief. Without wine there is no longer Kypris [#Aphrodite] or any other pleasant thing for men."
Euripides, The Bacchae 770
#Eros adjusts a kottabos stand while Dionysos reclines on a couch, Bell Krater 395–375 BCE
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!
#Eros adjusts the kottabos stand, a popular game at #ancientGreek symosia. #Dionysos reclines on a couch, his lower body richly draped, holding a thyrsos in his left hand and a wine cup in his right.
Red-figure vase painting on a bell krater, dated 395–375 BCE.
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