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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 07:47:12
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It'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.social
2025-07-10 20:49:46
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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from hi…

A bronze statue of Zeus striding forward, his arm raised to hurl a thunderbolt now missing. He has long, braided hair and a crown.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-07 07:47:18
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"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treache…

Red-figure vase painting of Athena holding an oinochoe (wine jug) as Zeus and Hera, seated to either side of her, proffer phialai (libation bowls) to be filled.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-05 09:53:13
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"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

Roman marble sculpture of Ganymedes and Zeus in the shape of an eagle who has his talons around the youth's body. Ganymedes reaches up towards the eagle. A hound watches the scene.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-03 12:24:37
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Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains,…

Black-figure vase painting of a seated man facing a flying eagle. The painting depicts either the bound Titan Prometheus tormented by the Caucasian eagle or Zeus seated on a throne with his eagle familiar.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-31 07:02:06
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"Typhoeus, would have been king of gods and of mortals, had not [Zeus] the father of gods and men been sharp to perceive it and gave a hard, heavy clap of thunder, so that the earth gave grisly reverberation, and the wide heaven above, and the sea, and the streams of Okeanos, and the underground chambers."
Hesiod, T…

Black-figure vase painting depicting Zeus' battle with the winged, serpent-footed, animal-eared giant Typhoeus. Zeus, armed with a lightning bolt, attacks Typhoeus.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-05-29 15:29:46
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Happy #FathersDay to all fathers and daddies ❤️
#Zeus is the father of many of the gods and many mortals liked to trace their line…

Marble relief of Zeus, who is seated, while Leto stands by his left side with their children Apollon and Artemis.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-26 13:08:41
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"[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-…

A lined page noting down several quotes about Zeus and Ganymede in handwriting with a pencil drawing of Zeus courting Ganymede copied from a vase painting. The text reads: "'The king of all gods once burned with love for Ganymede' (Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8 CE). 'Ganymede, who was comeliest of mortal men, wheretofore the gods carried him off to be ZEUS' cupbearer' (Homer, Iliad, 700 BCE). 'Setting ZEUS' majesty aflame with his thighs' (Sophocles, 406 BCE). 'There was Ganymede, the darling of ZEUS'…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 07:27:53
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"In the course of the battle [the giant] Porphyrion rushed against Herakles and also Hera. #Zeus instilled him with a passion for Hera and when he tore her gown and wanted to rape her, she called for help, whereat Zeus hit him with …

Detail of Zeus battling the giant Porphyrion from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). Zeus brandishes a lightning-bolt in one hand and holds a royal sceptre in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel or oak and has a cloak draped across his arm. The Gigante is armed with a rock and equipped with a crested helm and a shield painted with a coiling serpent.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 15:39:10
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"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 …

Relief of Zeus and Ganymede. Zeus is seated, one arm around an eagle, the other holding Ganymede, who is just getting off his lap.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-17 07:48:04
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"Having slaughtered a male child, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Mainalos. But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezos, and blasted Lykaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyktimos, the youngest."
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Bronze figurine of Zeus Keraunos (Zeus of the Thunderbolt). He he depicted as a mature, bearded man, wielding his thunderbolt in his right and taking aim with his outstretched left arm.