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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 15:39:10
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It'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 …

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.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 07:47:12
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"[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
2025-06-05 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
2025-05-29 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'…