In Greek mythology, who was the beautiful Trojan prince who was carried off by Zeus to become cup-bearer to the gods?
"is drunk, he says he is seeing gods and begins to call Silenus Ganymede (the beautiful prince Zeus made his immortal cup bearer). The Cyclops then steals Silenus away into his cave, with the implication that he is about do something sexual to him. Odysseus decides to execute the next phase of his plan. The Satyrs initially offer to help, but later become afraid and offer a variety of absurd excuses when the time for action actually comes. The annoyed Odysseus gets his crew to help instead, and they burn out the Cyclops' eye. He had told the Cyclops earlier"
"earlier time, on Mount Ida, Ganymede, the son of Tros or perhaps of Laomedon, both kings of Troy, was desired by Zeus, who descended in the form of an eagle and swept up Ganymede, to be cupbearer to the Olympian gods. On the sacred mountain, the nymphs who were the daughter-spirits of the river Cebrenus, had their haunt, and one, Oenone, who had the chthonic gifts of prophetic vision and the curative powers of herb magic, wed Paris, living as a shepherd on Mount Ida. Unbeknownst to all, even to himself, Paris was the son of Priam, king of Troy."
"He was selected for his good looks and grace to serve at his master's side, where he is often depicted in art. Among his duties, at a ""convivium"" he would enact the Greek mythological role of Ganymede, the Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to serve as a divine cupbearer. Attacks on emperors such as Nero and Elagabalus, whose young male partners accompanied them in public for official ceremonies, criticized the perceived ""Greekness"" of male-male sexuality. ""Greek love"", or the cultural model of Greek pederasty in ancient Rome, is a ""topos or literary game"" that ""never stops being Greek in the"
"Helen of Troy In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (, ""Helénē"", ), also known as Helen of Sparta, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta but was abducted by Prince Paris of Troy after the goddess Aphrodite promised her to him in the Judgement of Paris. This resulted in the Trojan War when the Achaeans set out to reclaim her. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, and Polydeuces. Elements of her putative biography come"
"humble pursuit characteristic of a hero's boyhood before his privileged status is revealed. Zeus either summoned an eagle or turned into an eagle himself to transport the youth to Mount Olympus. In the ""Iliad"", Zeus is said to have compensated Ganymede's father Tros by the gift of fine horses, ""the same that carry the immortals"", delivered by the messenger god Hermes. Tros was consoled that his son was now immortal and would be the cupbearer for the gods, a position of much distinction. Walter Burkert found a precedent for the Ganymede myth on an Akkadian seal that depicts the hero-king"
"Etana riding heavenwards on an eagle. In Olympus, Zeus granted him eternal youth and immortality and the office of cupbearer to the gods, who was relived of her duties as cupbearer upon her marriage to the Herakles. Edmund Veckenstedt associated Ganymede with the genesis of the intoxicating drink mead, which had a traditional origin in Phrygia. All the gods were filled with joy to see the youth, except for Hera, Zeus's consort, who regarded Ganymede as a rival for her husband's affection. Zeus later put Ganymede in the sky as the constellation Aquarius ( the ""water-carrier"" or ""cup-carrier""), which is"
"friends were gathering flowers in a meadow. The god transformed into a bull with breath smelling of saffron, in the guise of which he abducted Europa, carrying her upon his back to Crete. There she bore Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon to Zeus, and he gave her a necklace made by Hephaestus that would figure in Theban saga as the Necklace of Harmonia. Sarpedon ruled Lycia, and was apparently granted a lifespan equal to three generations of men by Zeus. His death at Troy and the rain of blood it inspired Zeus to send is briefly described. Minos ruled Crete, succeeding"
"sent His eagle down to bring Ganymede to Olympus to be His cup-bearer."" - an excerpt from the ""Hellenic Temple of Apollon, Zeus, and Pan"" While other accounts speak of the eagle actually being Zeus himself, transformed into the eagle to carry out this task:""Ganymede, a handsome boy, excited the passion of Zeus who, in the guise of an eagle, bore him away to Mount Olympus."" - an excerpt from ""The Encyclopedia of Mythology"" by Arthur Cotterell. The painting originally adorned the ceiling for a distinguished lawyer in Mazza's home city of Padua. The subject, Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle"
"most beautiful became jealous of one another. Zeus was unwilling to settle the debate lest he offend his wife, Hera, by judging in favour of another goddess. By mutual consent, the decision was given to the shepherd Paris. Paris was a Trojan prince, a younger son of King Priam and his wife Hecuba. However, at his birth, an oracle announced that the future prince would cause the destruction of Troy. In fear, Priam ordered that the boy be killed and had Paris exposed on Mount Ida, where he was rescued by shepherds. Paris had to decide amongst: Paris decides in"
"Catamite In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin ""catamitus"") was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of a young man, usually in a pederastic relationship – in the broadest sense. It was usually a term of affection and literally means ""Ganymede"" in Latin, and was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. 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. The Etruscan form of the name"
"Lycaon of Troy In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homer's ""Iliad"", Lycaon (; Ancient Greek: Λυκάων; ""gen"".: Λυκάονος) was a son of Priam and Laothoe, daughter of the Lelegian king Altes. Lycaon lent his cuirass to his brother Paris when he duelled against Menelaus, husband of Helen. On another occasion Apollo took the shape of Lycaon to address Aeneas. During the Trojan War, Lycaon was captured by Achilles while cutting branches in Priam's orchard. Achilles sold him as a slave to Euneus of Lemnos, but Eetion of Imbros bought him, took him back to Troy, and restored him to his"
"return for the apple; Hera offered to make him the king of Europe and Asia Minor, Athena offered him wisdom and skill in battle, and Aphrodite offered to give to him the love of the world's most beautiful woman, Helen of Sparta, who was already married to King Menelaus. Paris chose Aphrodite, a decision that caused the Trojan war, and ultimately the destruction of both Paris and his city, Troy. See In Norse mythology, the golden apples are the source of the gods' immortality and perpetual youth; comparable to the role of ambrosia in Greek mythology. They are cultivated by—and"
"supposed to be wavy, fair, and scented with perfume. The mythological type of the ""delicatus"" was represented by Ganymede, the Trojan youth abducted by Jove (Greek Zeus) to be his divine companion and cupbearer. In the ""Satyricon"", the tastelessly wealthy freedman Trimalchio says that as a child-slave he had been a ""puer delicatus"" servicing both the master and the mistress of the household. ""Pullus"" was a term for a young animal, and particularly a chick. It was an affectionate word traditionally used for a boy (""puer"") who was loved by someone ""in an obscene sense"". The lexicographer Festus provides a"
"his rule, now turned into the terrible king his father Uranus had been, swallowing each of his children whole as they were born from his sister-wife Rhea. Rhea, however, managed to hide her youngest child Zeus, by tricking Cronus into swallowing a rock wrapped in a blanket instead. Rhea brought Zeus to a cave in Crete, where he was raised by Amalthea. Upon reaching adulthood, he masqueraded as Cronus' cupbearer. Once Zeus had been established as a servant of Cronus, Metis gave him a mixture of mustard and wine which would cause Cronus to vomit up his swallowed children. After"
"and Aeneas. In mythology, Aphrodite is partly held responsible for the Trojan War. Having offered prince Paris the most beautiful woman in the world fro choosing her, and when he won and tried to be with Helen of Sparta, although she was already married he decided to take her without permission of the Spartan King. Aphrodite of course not having much to with it, was responsible for offering her married sister, she has since been added to an epithet of War, wearing armor and holding a spear and shield. Aphrodite Areia Areia or Aphrodite Areia () or ""Aphrodite the Warlike"""
"identified as cherubim. Another famous example is ""Amor Vincit Omnia"" by Caravaggio. In contemporary popular culture, Cupid is shown drawing his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentine's Day. In Greek mythology, Hebe is the goddess of youth, always depicted as a young girl. In Roman mythology her equivalent is Juventas. She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia. She was also worshipped as a goddess of pardons or forgiveness; freed prisoners would hang their chains in the sacred"
"and the races they have the positions of highest honor, and are allowed to dress in better clothes than the rest, that is, in the habit given them by their lovers; and not then only, but even after they have grown to manhood, they wear a distinctive dress, which is intended to make known the fact that each wearer has become kleinos, for they call the loved one kleinos (distinguished) and the lover philetor."""" Not surprisingly, these same Cretans were credited with introducing the myth of Zeus kidnapping Ganymede to be his lover in Olympus – though even the king"
"to have fathered three giant Hyperborean priests of Apollo by Chione. Boreas was also said to have kidnapped Orithyia, an Athenian princess, from the Ilisos. Boreas had taken a fancy to Orithyia and had initially pleaded for her favours, hoping to persuade her. When this failed, he reverted to his usual temper and abducted her as she danced on the banks of the Ilisos. Boreas wrapped Orithyia up in a cloud, married her, and with her, Boreas fathered two sons—the Boreads, Zethes and Calais—and two daughters—Chione, goddess of snow, and Cleopatra. From then on, the Athenians saw Boreas as a"
"the immortal but beautiful Aurora. Tithonus In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; ) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. Tithonus was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a ""rhapsode"", as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, ""circa"" 470–460 BC. Competitive singing, as in the ""Contest of Homer and Hesiod"", is also depicted vividly in the ""Homeric Hymn to Apollo"", and mentioned in the two ""Hymns to"
"of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed – ""For the most beautiful one"", or ""To the Fairest One"" – provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient. The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the fairest by Zeus. The goddesses stripped naked to try to win Paris' decision, and also attempted to bribe him. Hera offered political power; Athena promised infinite wisdom; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. While Greek"
"another was at Troezen. Hesiod relates how Pegasus was peacefully drinking from a spring when the hero Bellerophon captured him. Hesiod also says Pegasus carried thunderbolts for Zeus. There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's ""springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa: One is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus. In another version,"
"asserts to a friend: There is some pleasure in loving a boy ""(paidophilein)"", since once in fact even the son of Cronus ""(that is, Zeus)"", king of immortals, fell in love with Ganymede, seized him, carried him off to Olympus, and made him divine, keeping the lovely bloom of boyhood ""(paideia)"". So, don't be astonished, Simonides, that I too have been revealed as captivated by love for a handsome boy. The myth of Ganymede's abduction, however, was not taken seriously by some in Athenian society, and deemed to be a Cretan fabrication designed to justify their homoeroticism. The scholar Joseph"
"the river-gods, Cebren or Oeneus. Her very name links her to the gift of wine. Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy (owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy) but rescued by the herdsman Agelaus. The couple married, and Oenone gave birth to a son, Corythus. When Paris later abandoned her to return to Troy and sail across the Aegean to kidnap Helen, the queen"
"home. It has been foretold that in Italy he will give rise to a race both noble and courageous, a race which will become known to all nations. Juno is wrathful, because she had not been chosen in the judgment of Paris, and because her favorite city, Carthage, will be destroyed by Aeneas's descendants. Also, Ganymede, a Trojan prince, was chosen to be the cupbearer to her husband, Jupiter—replacing Juno's daughter, Hebe. Juno proceeds to Aeolus, King of the Winds, and asks that he release the winds to stir up a storm in exchange for a bribe (Deiopea, the loveliest"
"his son. Sympathetic, Zeus sent Hermes with two horses so swift they could run over water. Hermes also assured Laomedon that Ganymede was immortal and would be the cupbearer for the gods, a position of much distinction. However, Ganymede is more usually described as a son of Tros, an earlier King of Troy and grandfather of Laomedon (making him an uncle to Laomedon). Laomedon himself was the son of Ganymede’s brother Ilus, the son of Tros. When Poseidon and Apollo entered a conspiracy to put Zeus in bonds, the supreme god being offended, sent them to serve with King Laomedon"
"cypress. Leuce (mythology) In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce (, ""White"", specifically ""White Poplar"") was the most beautiful of the nymphs and a daughter of Oceanus. Pluto fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god sought consolation by creating a suitable memorial of their love: in the Elysian Fields where the pious spend their afterlife, he brought a white tree into existence. It was this tree with which Heracles crowned himself to celebrate his return from the underworld. Maurus Servius Honoratus identifies"
"associated with that of the Eagle (Aquila). A moon of Jupiter, the planet named after Zeus's Roman counterpart, was named Ganymede by the German astronomer Simon Marius. Plato accounts for the pederastic aspect of the myth by attributing its origin to Crete, where the social custom of ""paiderastía"" was supposed to have originated (see ""Cretan pederasty""). Athenaeus ecorded a version of the myth were Ganymede was abducted by the legendary King Minos to serve as his cupbearer instead of Zeus. Some authors have equated this version of the myth to Cretan pederasty practices, as recorded by Strabo and Ephoros, that"
"Leuce (mythology) In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce (, ""White"", specifically ""White Poplar"") was the most beautiful of the nymphs and a daughter of Oceanus. Pluto fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god sought consolation by creating a suitable memorial of their love: in the Elysian Fields where the pious spend their afterlife, he brought a white tree into existence. It was this tree with which Heracles crowned himself to celebrate his return from the underworld. Maurus Servius Honoratus identifies the"
"from the royal house of Troy to be her consorts. When Zeus stole Ganymede from her to be his cup-bearer, as a repayment, Eos asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever but grew ever older. In later tellings, Eos eventually turned him into a cricket to relieve him of such an existence. In the poem however, it is Eos, and not Zeus, who grants Tithonus immortality. In the poem, Tithonus asks Eos for the gift of immortality, which she readily grants him, but forgets to ask for eternal youth"
"high ranking, unmarried girls. One of her roles was to be the cupbearer to the gods, serving them ambrosia and nectar. In classical sources, Hebe’s departure from this role was due to her marriage to the deified hero Herakles. Despite this, Cicero seems to imply that Hebe or Ganymede, who is typically seen as her successor, could serve in the role of cupbearer at the heavenly feast. The reasoning for Hebe’s dismissal was transformed into a moralizing story in the 1500s by the Church of England, where it was stated in a note in an English-Latin dictionary that Hebe fell"
"Carina (the ""keel"" of the ship Argo) and the second-brightest star in the night sky after Sirius. Canopus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Canopus or Canobus () was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. Canopus is described as a handsome young man who was loved by the Egyptian prophetess Theonoe but never reciprocated her feelings. According to legend, while visiting the Egyptian coast Canopus was bitten by a serpent and died. His master Menelaus erected a monument to him at one of the mouths of the River Nile, around which the town of"
"beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta. He awarded the apple to Aphrodite, thus indirectly causing the Trojan War. The apple was thus considered, in ancient Greece, to be sacred to Aphrodite, and to throw an apple at someone was to symbolically declare one's love; and similarly, to catch it was to symbolically show one's acceptance of that love. An epigram claiming authorship by Plato states: Atalanta, also of Greek mythology, raced all her suitors in an attempt to avoid marriage. She outran all but Hippomenes (also known as Melanion, a name possibly derived from ""melon"" the Greek word"
"by the Trojans as the direct cause of the decade long Trojan War between Greece and Troy. The war began after the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite asked Paris (a Trojan prince) to select who was the most beautiful of the three. Each goddess tried to influence Paris’ decision, but he ultimately chose Aphrodite who then promised Paris the most beautiful woman. Paris then traveled to Greece where he was greeted by Helen and her husband Menelaus. Under the influence of Aphrodite, Helen allowed Paris to persuade her to elope with him. Together they traveled to Troy, not only sparking"