Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Ganymede

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Canonical name
Ganymede
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None
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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son Ganymede

Descriptive reference · Reported

comeliest of mortal men

Epithet · Remembered

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Claims

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·Reported

Aeneas describes beautiful Ganymede as carried off to dwell among immortals as Jove’s cupbearer.

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“Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Jove’s cupbearer, for his beauty’s sake, that he might dwell among the immortals”

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·Reported
“Ganymede”
·Remembered
“Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 23

Diomed looked angrily at him and answered: ‘Talk not of flight, for I shall not listen to you: I am of a race that knows neither flight nor fear, and my limbs are as yet unwearied. I am in no mind to mount, but will go against them even as I am; Pallas Minerva bids me be afraid of no man, and even though one of them escape, their steeds shall not take both back again. I say further, and lay my saying to your heart—if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Aeneas’ horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks. They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun. King Anchises stole the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon’s knowledge, and they bore him six foals. Four are still in his stables, but he gave the other two to Aeneas. We shall win great glory if we can take them.’