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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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"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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"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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"And Dardanos' child, #Ganymede, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings."
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

🏛️ #Ganymedes and #Zeus, wall decoration in the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Source: maicar.com/GML/Ganymedes.html

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"[Constellation] Aquila. This is the eagle which is said to have snatched #Ganymede up and given him to his lover, Jove . . . And so it seems to fly above Aquarius, who, as many imagine is Ganymede."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.16

🏛️ #Zeus abducting #Ganymedes in the shape of an eagle, #mosaic, 2nd-3rd century CE, House of Dionysos, Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus

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"In these lines Apollonios takes over what Ibykos said in his account of the abduction of #Ganymede [that he was carried off by a love-smitten #Zeus] in his song to Gorgias."
Ibycus, Fragment 289 (from Scholiast on Apollonios of Rhodes)

🏛️ #Ganymedes, Roman copy of a 340-320 BCE bronze sculpture by Leochares, Vatican Museum

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"If #Zeus still carried off mortal boys from earth to the sky to be cup bearer of the sweet nectar, an eagle would sooner have borne my lovely Agrippa on his wings to the service of the immortals,
Yes, by yourself I swear it. Son of Kronos, Father of the World, if you look on him you will at once find fault with the Phrygian boy [#Ganymedes]."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 12.194

🏛️ Rome, 1st century BCE

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"To Tros in turn there were born 3 sons unfaulted, Ilos, Assarakos, and godlike Ganymede who was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the gods."
Homer, Iliad 20. 232

🏛️ #Ganymedes abducted by #Zeus, Roman #mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, 2nd century CE

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"Yeah, by Ganymedes of the fair locks, O Zeus in heaven, you too have loved."
Callimachus, Epigrams 53

🏛️ #Zeus abducting #Ganymedes in the shape of an eagle, #mosaic, late 2nd-early 3rd century CE, in the House of Dionysos, Paphos Archaeological Park, #Cyprus

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"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11

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

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"Lovely his body's grace, that spring-tide hour of beauty, which long since freed #Ganymede – so willed Kypris [Aphrodite] – from death's relentless power."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.102

🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, red-figure vase painting, Athens, National Archaeological Museum

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