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Have a joyful # DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! (files.mastodon.social)
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇"Goatherd Pan cried out: ‘I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! I wish I could be lord of the mindtripping grape, like Bakkhos [Dionysos]!’"Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289🏛 Dionysos and Pan, 50-150 CE#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Pan #ancientRome

Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos with the goat-legged Pan. Dionysos is depicted as a handsome youth, his long hair, decorated with an ivy crown, falling over his shoulders. He carries a thyrsos staff in his right hand and a cup in his left. An animal skin is draped over his torso. Pan looks up at him, a shepherd's crook in his hand.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

@cobalt123 @SJAsh_03 The word that is used in the original Greek is νοοσφαλέος, νοοσ is the mind and φαλέος is, as I interpret it, something like being drunk (νηφαλέος is being sober with νη being a negative particle).So translating it as "mindtripping" was the tranlator's choice 😁 Input from actual (ancient) Greek speakers is very welcome, I am but a bloody amateur ❤️

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @AimeeMaroux @cobalt123 I cannot really help on ancient Greek, but...1. Νους is modern Greek for "mind".2. I wonder if the rest of the word has some connection to the modern Greek "σφάλμα" which has the idea of "going astray". Maybe, maybe not.Anyhow, from what has been said, the translation sounds reasonable, if picturesque.

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