ancientart:Late Archaic Greek terracotta statue of Zeus and Ganymede.This statue makes reference to
ancientart:Late Archaic Greek terracotta statue of Zeus and Ganymede.This statue makes reference to the Abduction of Ganymedes in Greek mythology, whereby Ganymedes, a good-looking (apparently, though he looks more like a six-year-old in a onesie in this statue) Trojan prince, is carried up into the heavens to be the lover and cup-bearer of Zeus.Segment from Homer’s Iliad, 1260-1240 BC:“Tros, who was lord of the Trojans, and to Tros in turn there were born three sons unfaulted, Ilos (Ilus) and Assarakos (Assaracus) and godlike Ganymedes who was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus’ wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.”Courtesy & currently located at the Olympia Archaeological Museum, Greece. Photo taken by Joanbanjo. -- source link