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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.
Ganymedes was the tutor of Cleopatra's half-sister and rival, Arsinoe.When civil war broke out between Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra, Arsinoë sided with Ptolemy, escaping the palace in Ganymedes's company to take command of the army.
Ganymede (Γανυμήδης), Trojan hero and lover of Zeus, who was given immortality and appointed cup-bearer to the gods; Hector (Ἕκτωρ), hero of the Trojan War and champion of the Trojan people; Icarus (Ἴκαρος), the son of the master craftsman Daedalus; Iolaus (Ἰόλαος), nephew of Heracles who aided his uncle in one of ...
The Rape of Ganymede, referring to the Greek god Jupiter kidnapping the handsome Ganymede and taking him to Mount Olympus, has been the subject of a number of notable paintings. These include: Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (c. 1531–1532), a painting by Antonio da Correggio; The Rape of Ganymede (c. 1575), a painting by Damiano Mazza
Die Entführung des Ganymed, by Christian Gottfried Schultze, c. 1780 George de Vicq as Ganymede , by Nicolaes Maes, 1681, Fogg Art Museum An inventory, made on 17 February 1671, of the estate of Catharina van der Pluym, widow of Willem Schilperoort and aunt of Rembrandt's great-nephew and pupil Karel van der Pluym , mentions "een stuck van ...
The 11-year-old died by suicide on February 8 – five days after her mother found her unresponsive at their home in Gainesville, Texas, according to an online obituary. Her mother says Jocelynn ...
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The Rape of Ganymede or The Abduction of Ganymede is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens produced between 1636 and 1638 for the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain's hunting lodge. [1] The painting is based on a story recounted in classical poet Ovid's Metamorphoses (X, 155-161).