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Zeus pursues Ganymede on one side, while the youth runs away on the other side, rolling along a hoop while holding aloft a crowing cock. The Ganymede myth was depicted in recognizable contemporary terms, illustrated with common behavior of homoerotic courtship rituals, as on a vase by the "Achilles Painter" where Ganymede also flees with a cock.
Articles relating to Ganymede and his depictions. He is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy . Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals, abducted by the gods, to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus .
"Ganymed" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the character of the mythic youth Ganymede is seduced by God (or Zeus) through the beauty of Spring. In early editions of the Collected Works it appeared in Volume II of Goethe's poems in a section of Vermischte Gedichte (assorted poems), shortly following the " Gesang der Geister ...
Ganymede also wears a hat and has the same carefully arranged corkscrew locks underneath it. The long hair hangs down over his neck and shoulders. His expression is strained, serious and pensive, in strong contrast to Zeus' satisfied expression. In his left hand Ganymede holds a hen, a common gift associated with pederasty at the time.
The book describes Ganymede as having about 1 ⁄ 3 Earth gravity but in reality it is only about 1 ⁄ 7. Heinlein also postulated that the surface of Ganymede was volcanic rock like the Moon . Subsequent discoveries have shown that Ganymede's crust is actually almost 90 percent ice or frost, covering a subsurface ocean.
Kate Middleton's annual Christmas Carol on Friday, December 6 included numerous members of the extended royal family in attendance.. Sophie Winkleman, who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the ...
"Christmas on Ganymede" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was written in December 1940, first published in the January 1942 issue of Startling Stories , and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov and the anthology Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories , edited by Martin H. Greenberg .
March 2023 was the second-warmest March worldwide on record, but the Pacific Northwest was a rare cool spot. Pacific NW was one of the only places in the world to endure a ‘cold’ March. Here ...