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"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3

🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, Attic red figure vase painting

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"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.72.4

🏛️ #Zeus & #Hera votive relief, 4th century BCE

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"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14

🏛️ #Jupiter, 1st century CE, Tivoli

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"Zeus Kronides received him in a chamber fit for birth and having covered him in his thigh shut him up with golden clasps, hidden from Hera. And he brought forth, when the Moirai had perfected him, the bull-horned god and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks."
Euripides, Bacchae 90

🏛️ Birth of Dionysos by George Platt Lynes, 1945-49

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"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b

🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze, 1st century CE

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"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141

🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy

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"When Zeus was beginning warfare against the Titans [...] he saw an eagle fly nearby as a favourable omen for victory. In return for this happy omen, and particularly because it was indeed followed by victory, he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour."
Anacreon, Fragment 505d

🏛️ Iupiter, Asia Minor, 2nd-3rd century CE

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"Zeus breathes deeply with delight, like men who have undergone a great contest for a great prize, and he looks searchingly for his daughter, feeling pride in his offspring; nor yet is there even on Hera's face any trace of indignation; nay, she rejoices, as though Athena were her daughter also."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.27

🏛️ Greek red-figure stamnos, 500-460 BCE

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"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141

🏛️ #Ganymedes and Zeus as an eagle, Roman #mosaic, 2nd century CE

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"There is also [in Troizenos, Argolis] a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Soter (the Saviour), which, they say, was made by [the mythical] Aitios, the son of Anthas, when he was king."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.10

🏛️ Glass cast, Roman cameo, bust of Zeus-Jupiter, signet ring, 30 BCE - No later than 200 CE

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"On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen. Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.2

🏛️ #Jupiter, Capitoline Museums, Rome
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"Jupiter, mindful of his indiscretion, rescued her [Kallisto] and placed her and her son among the constellations. He named her Arctos (Bear), and her son Arctophylas (Bear Watcher)."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.1

🏛️ #Jupiter as Planet Jupiter in the #Mosaic of the Plantearium, ancient Roman city of Itálica, Santiponce, Seville, Spain

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"[Zeus] soared ascending to the ethereal sky, and by his nod called up the trailing clouds and massed a storm, with lightnings in the squalls, and thunder and the bolts that never miss."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.302

🏛️ Jupiter, plaster copy of a Roman relief ca. 117–138 CE, Thorvaldsens Museum

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"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treachery and by slippery speeches, put her away inside his own belly. This was by the advice of Gaia and starry Ouranos."
Hesiod, Theogony 886

🏛️ Stamnos, 490 BCE

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"Typhoeus, would have been king of gods and of mortals, had not [Zeus] the father of gods and men been sharp to perceive it and gave a hard, heavy clap of thunder, so that the earth gave grisly reverberation, and the wide heaven above, and the sea, and the streams of Okeanos, and the underground chambers."
Hesiod, Theogony 820

🏛️ Chalcidian black-figure hydria, ca 540 BCE

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"In the course of the battle [the giant] Porphyrion rushed against Herakles and also Hera. #Zeus instilled him with a passion for Hera and when he tore her gown and wanted to rape her, she called for help, whereat Zeus hit him with a thunderbolt and Herakles slew him with an arrow."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.36

🏛️ Attic red-figure kylix, 410-400 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin

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"Having slaughtered a male child, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Mainalos. But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezos, and blasted Lykaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyktimos, the youngest."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 8.1

🏛️ Bronze figurine from Dodona

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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame."
Hesiod, Theogony 617

🏛️ Bronze sculpture of a smiting Zeus, Museo Nazionale Archeologico Taranto

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Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day."
Hesiod, Theogony 520

🏛️ Laconian Black Figure Kylix, 560-550 BCE

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"[Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty Zeus" 🔥 🌈
Sophokles' Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios

🏛️ Pencil drawing of a red-figure vase painting of Zeus and Ganymedes, ca. 475-425 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Ferrara

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