18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

"A Phrygian, and born of our blood, was he [#Ganymedes] who now is with the gods, and mingles water with the nectar for their drinking."
Ovid, Heroides 16.199, Paris to Helen

🏛️ Ganymedes and #Zeus as an #eagle, Roman #mosaic, 2nd century CE

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18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Wall decoration of #Ganymedes seemingly just getting off #Zeus' lap...

🏛️ #Neoclassical relief, Hamburger Kunsthalle

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18+ AimeeMaroux, 7 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

#Ganymede on Olympus, surrounded by #Zeus who offered him a cock, a goddess crowning him and #Hebe.

🏛️ Side A of an Attic black-figure amphora depicting Zeus, #Ganymedes, and Hebe, ca. 510 BCE, Staatliche Antikensammlungen #München

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AimeeMaroux, 8 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

#Zeus seduces #Ganymedes, who will become his immortal eromenos.

🏛️ Detail from a hydria attributed to the Eupolis Painter, 450 - 440 BCE. Today in the Vatican Museums, #Rome.

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AimeeMaroux, 8 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Painting of the theft of Fire: #Zeus and his eagle and his lover #Ganymedes are all asleep. Meanwhile, #Prometheus steals fire from the thunderbolt in Zeus' hand.

🏛️ The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, dated 1878 CE.

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AimeeMaroux, 9 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Humourous Roman #mosaic of #Ganymedes and #Zeus as a heron with a sponge on a stick, commony used by the Romans to clean the bum after going to the toilet. But if you know that Ganymedes is Zeus' lover, a different reason for sponging his genitals comes to mind 😏

🏛️ Dated 2nd century CE, discovered in Antiochia ad Cragum, Turkey

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AimeeMaroux, 11 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

#Ganymedes abducted by Zeus in the shape of a giant eagle. 🦅

🏛️ Roman mosaic from Sousse, #Tunisia, 2nd century CE

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