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GANYMEDE , in Greek mythology, son of Tros, king of Dardania, and Callirrhoe. He was the most beautiful of mortals, and was carried off by the gods (in the later story by Zeus himself, or by Zeus in the form of an eagle) to Olympus
supply of water on earth. When pederasty became common in Greece
Crete , where the love of boys was reduced to a system, Minos, the primitive ruler and law-giver, was said to have been the ravisher of Ganymede. Thus the name which once denoted the good genius who bestowed the precious gift of water upon man was adopted to this use in vulgar Latin under the form Catamitus. Ganymede being carried off by the eagle was the subject of a bronze group by the Athenian sculptor Leochares, imitated in a marble statuette in the Vatican. E. Veckenstedt (Ganymedes, Libau, 1881) endeavours to prove that Ganymede is the genius of intoxicating drink (dOv, mead , for which he postulates a form th os), whose original
home was Phrygia.See article by P. Weizsacker in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie. In the article GREEK ART, fig. 53 (PI. I.) gives an illustration
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