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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.
The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the name of the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer, according to Greek mythology. [3] The Etruscan form of the name was Catmite, from an alternative Greek form of the name, Gadymedes. [4]
Ganymede most commonly refers to: Ganymede (mythology) , Trojan prince in Greek mythology, or his nephew of the same name Ganymede (moon) , Jupiter's largest moon, named after the mythological character
In Greek mythology, Tros (/ ˈ t r ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Τρώς, Ancient Greek:) was the founder of the kingdom of Troy, of which the city of Ilios, founded by his son Ilus took the same name, and the son of Erichthonius by Astyoche (daughter of the river god Simoeis) [1] or of Ilus I [citation needed], from whom he inherited the throne.
Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter, and in the Solar System.Despite being the only moon in the Solar System with a substantial magnetic field, it is the largest Solar System object without a substantial atmosphere.
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.
Ganymede rolling a hoop and carrying a cockerel, a love gift from Zeus who is depicted in pursuit on the other side of this Attic krater. Around 500 BCE. Though examples of such a custom exist in earlier Greek works, myths providing examples of young men who were the lovers of gods began to emerge in Classical literature, around the 6th century BC.
The largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with