@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
Happy #FathersDay to all fathers and daddies ❤️
#Zeus is the father of many of the gods and many mortals liked to trace their line…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"[Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty Zeus" 🔥 🌈
Sophokles' Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrštios
🏛️ Pencil drawing of a red-figure vase painting of Zeus and Ganymedes, ca. 475-…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"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 …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"[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, As…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"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
