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GANYMEDE , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, son of Tros, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Dardania, and See also:Callirrhoe. He was the most beautiful of mortals, and was carried off by the gods (in the later See also:story by See also:Zeus himself, or by Zeus in the See also:form of an See also:eagle) to See also:Olympus to serve as See also:cup-See also:bearer (See also:Apollodorus iii. 12; See also:Virgil, Aeneid, v. 254; See also:Ovid, Metam. x. 255). By way of See also:compensation, Zeus presented his See also:father with a team of immortal horses (or a See also:golden See also:vine). Ganymede was afterwards regarded as the See also:genius of the fountains of the See also:Nile, the See also:life-giving and fertilizing See also:river, and identified by astronomers with the See also:Aquarius of the See also:zodiac. Thus the divinity that distributed drink to the gods in See also:heaven became the genius who presided over the due See also:supply of See also:water on See also:earth. When pederasty became See also:common in See also:Greece, an See also:attempt was made to justify it and invest it with dignity by referring to the See also:rape of the beautiful boy by Zeus; in See also:Crete, where the love of boys was reduced to a See also:system, See also:Minos, the See also:primitive ruler and See also:law-giver, was said to have been the ravisher of Ganymede. Thus the name which once denoted the See also:good genius who bestowed the See also:precious See also:gift of water upon See also: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 See also:bronze See also:group by the Athenian sculptor Leochares, imitated in a See also:marble statuette in the Vatican. E. Veckenstedt (Ganymedes, See also:Libau, 1881) endeavours to prove that Ganymede is the genius of intoxicating drink (µdOv, See also:mead, for which he postulates a form th os), whose See also:original See also:home was See also:Phrygia.
See See also:article by P. See also:Weizsacker in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie. In the article GREEK See also:ART, fig. 53 (PI. I.) gives an See also:illustration of Ganymede See also:borne aloft by an eagle.
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