My biggest question about #bears after our #astronomy & #mythology episodes on #UrsaMajor & #UrsaMinor was -- did bears ever have tails?!

Answer? Maybe back when Daddy Z was a baby 😂

Listen here for more bear fun: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-bear-creature-corner-plus/

📷 :https://www.extinctanimals.org/extinct-bears

#Zeus #StarLore #constellations #Zoology #Bears #Bear #FunFacts #ExinctAnimals #Animals #GreekMythology #Myths

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"For his wedding with Juno [#Hera], Jupiter [#Zeus] ordered Mercurius [#Hermes] to invite all the gods, the men and the animals to the wedding. Everyone invited by #Mercurius [Hermes] came, except for Chelone."
Servius, On Virgil's Aeneid 1.505

🏛 Hermes, Zeus & Hera, and Nike

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

We talk a lot on our show about the... erm... complicated marriage between the #AncientGreek gods Zeus & Hera (tl;dr: siblings, who are married. Zeus often cheats on Hera. Hera brutally punishes the mortal who Zeus cheated with).

In one of our myth ret-cons, I recast Io as Dr. Io, a therapist who finally got Zeus and Hera to break up 😂

📷 :https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/19555

#MythologyMonday #Zeus #Hera #Marriage #Io #Art #MastoArt #Museum #GreekMytholgoy #GrecoRomanMyth #mythology #myths