Party Rockers on The Farm Tonight!

from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

J Paul Getty Museum 83.AM.389

Cameo with a head of Ariadne, consort of Dionysos, facing to the right with her gaze slightly lifted. She wears a wreath of ivy leaves and berries. Her hair is gathered in a roll at the back and ringlets cascade down her neck with a stray lock before the neck. A trace of her dress becomes visible along the neckline. The rather fleshy features and short nose recall portraits of Ptolemaic queens and the resemblance may be deliberate since such assimilation to deities was common practice.

Dionysus approaches Ariadne for day 4 of mythtober

They may see me as a weed, or a menace to society, but I’ll spread my hope far and wide and they'll never get rid of me✨forever growing out of the darkest of places. through the cracks and fissures.

Dating to the 6th century CE, the mosaic depicts a face emerging from swirling acanthus leaves an ancient symbol of nature, rebirth, and the wild, untamed world beyond the empire's marble walls. While the "Green Man" is more commonly associated with medieval European churches, this rare Byzantine example reveals how older, pagan motifs continued to echo through Christian imperial art.

Dionysus and Elagabalus; gouache and paint marker on scrap paper. I'd like to do a big un of this. Kalmakov's original is a scrap painting as well, so I like the lineage. His depicts Dionysus and a very transy lookin Maenad so obviously, you know,

Viola

Olivia Tapiero, from her book titled "Nothing At All," originally published in January 2026

Satoshi Kawamata aka 川又聡 aka Kawamata Satoshi (Japanese, b. 1978, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - Leopards, Japanese Paintings: Sumi-e Ink, Mineral Pigments

Based on my post from the other day. Decided to give Dionysus a full design. I tried to give his chiton a bit of sensuality. I’d like to do maybe do some art eventually showing the more wrathful side of him

-Margaret Atwood

Words by my wonderful friend Bex Wade. Font is Coolvetica, multiple effects from Dither Boy, layered back into the original collage manually, which was a really interesting way to work.