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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
2025-06-12 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
2025-06-05 11:32:52
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Free to read for all of #PrideMonth:
Bratty prince #Ganymede gets to ride the cock that rules gods and men:

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-05 09:53:13
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It'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

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.