The Group of Zeus and Ganymede is a multi-figure Late Archaic Greek terracotta statue group, depicting Zeus carrying the boy Ganymede off to Mount Olympus...

Homer describes Ganymede as the most handsome of mortals and tells the story of how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus...

Ganymede is a natural satellite of Jupiter and the largest and most massive in the Solar System. Like Saturn's largest moon Titan, it is larger than the...

symbols. Zeus (/zjuːs/, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) is the chief deity of the Greek pantheon. He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology...

Δάρδανος, Dardanos) was the founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad. Dardanus, a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, was a significant...

cap of invisibility, and Zeus' kitchen staff, Percy sneaks into Zeus's palace where he gets Ganymede alone with the unexpected help of Athena and returns...

massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, which were independently discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and Simon...

depictions of Ganymede's abduction by Zeus; many Roman statues of this type survive to this day. The eighth and final sculpture is that of Leda, the queen of Sparta...

course of its siege by the Greeks. On a niche in the cliff face above the entrance to the grotto was Ganymede carried up by the Eagle, a disguise of Zeus, apparently...

Iliad presented Hebe (and at one instance, Hephaestus) as the cup bearer of the gods with the divine hero Ganymede acting as Zeus's personal cup bearer...

and Callisto—orbit within the magnetosphere and are visible with common binoculars. Ganymede, the largest of the four, is larger than the planet Mercury...

‘prewedding’ of sex with a mature man. The image of Ganymede in the figure on the right is an idealized portrait of an eromenos. The muscles on his body contrasts...

Greek mythology, using the German spelling ("Ganymed"). Ganymede was a Trojan prince abducted by Zeus to serve as a cup-bearer to the Greek gods. The name...

king of Argos and hero of the Trojan War Eleusis (Ἐλευσῖνι or Ἐλευσῖνα), eponymous hero of the town of Eleusis Eunostus, a Boeotian hero Ganymede (Γανυμήδης)...

Paul Huson suggests that the figure once represented Ganymede, who served as cup bearer to Zeus. Though it is possible that the figure could also be the...

for stealing fire from Olympus and giving it to humans is a subject of both ancient and modern culture. Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, condemned Prometheus...

and Hyacinth Theseus and Pirithous Zephyrus and Cyparissus Zephyrus and Hyacinth Zeus and Aëtos Zeus (Artemis) and Callisto Zeus and Euphorion Zeus and...

the Ganymede drawing. In mythology, Ganymede was a cupbearer for Zeus. Zeus fell into such lust for the young cupbearer that he took on the form of an...

ritual, particularly rites of passage on Crete, where it was associated with entrance into military life and the religion of Zeus. It has no formal existence...

derive from the legend of Ganymede being abducted by the eagle of Zeus, or from the crest of the Earl of Derby, with a story of a noble-born baby found...

after Carpo, one of the Horae, and a daughter of Zeus (Jupiter). Carpo has a diameter of about 3 km (1.9 mi) for an absolute magnitude of 16.2. Like all...

patron animal of the ancient Greek god Zeus. In particular, Zeus was said to have taken the form of an eagle in order to abduct Ganymede, and there are numerous...

perhaps because, like Ganymede the cup-bearer of Zeus, he stood at the side of the philetor during meals in the andreion and served him from the cup...

was dedicated at Olympia by Evagoras of Zancle; and, as a work of the younger, a group in bronze of Zeus and Ganymede, dedicated at Olympia by Gnothis, a...

second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede. In the Solar System it is the third-largest moon after Ganymede and Saturn's largest moon Titan, and nearly as large...

Diamandis, S. (1987). "Zeus olympius gen. et sp. nov. and Nectria ganymede sp. nov. from Mount Olympus, Greece". Transactions of the British Mycological...

liver, which was considered the seat of the passions. Zeus lusted after Ganymede, the most beautiful of all humans, and turned himself into an eagle to abduct...

minute, and a kind, caring person the next. Christopher gave up the offer to become an immortal because he failed to save the life of Ganymede, Zeus' male...

Achilles, Alcmene, Amphiaraus, Ganymede, Ino, Melicertes, Menelaus, Peleus, and a great number of those who fought in the Trojan and Theban wars, were considered...

Kratos and his sister Bia are best known for their appearance in the opening scene of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. Acting as agents of Zeus, they lead...