In Greek mythology, Ganymede (/ˈɡænɪmiːd/) or Ganymedes (/ɡænɪˈmiːdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Γανυμήδης Ganymēdēs) is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy...
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have the Latin spellings of their names, but the Latin form of Ganymede is Ganymēdēs, which would be pronounced /ˌɡænɪˈmiːdiːz/. However, the final syllable...
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Catamite (category Ganymede (mythology))
and Festus state clearly that Catamitus was the Latin equivalent of Ganymedes; Festus says he was the concubinus of Jove. Alessandra Bertocchi and Mirka...
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again three peerless sons were born, Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymedes that was born the fairest of mortal men; wherefore the gods caught him...
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Zeus' cup-bearer, Ganymede, responds to the advert, needing help because his chalice of immortality has been stolen and Ganymede needs to recover it...
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The Rape of Ganymede (c. 1575) is a painting by Damiano Mazza in the National Gallery, London. The artist's best-known painting, it depicts the legendary...
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Commons has media related to Maps of Ganymede. List of quadrangles on Ganymede List of craters on Ganymede List of named surface features on Ganymede...
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Galilean moons (redirect from Discovery of Ganymede)
Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most readily visible Solar System objects after...
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Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and has a hard surface with many craters. Most of them are named after figures from Egyptian, Mesopotamian...
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Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last...
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Cupid and Ganymede or Venus Finds Cupid Playing Dice with Ganymede is a 1782 painting by Angelica Kauffman, one of four works commissioned from her by...
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Cosmopterix ganymedes is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Argentina (Salta) and Brazil (Goiás). Adults were collected in April and...
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3001: The Final Odyssey (redirect from Ganymede City)
evenly around the Equator. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Moon in 1999, had...
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mass Jupiter I Io (4.70 ±0.06)×10−5 II Europa (2.56 ±0.06)×10−5 III Ganymedes (7.84 ±0.08)×10−5 IV Callisto (5.6 ±0.17)×10−5 Saturnus I Titan (2.41 ±0...
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of ice and rock rather than rock and metal: the largest such bodies are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Triton, and Pluto. If the protoplanet grows by accretion...
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but soon afterward had her tutor Ganymedes kill Achillas and take his position as commander of her army. Ganymedes then tricked Caesar into requesting...
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The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, which were independently discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei...
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burned the Alexandrian fleet, damaging the Great Library in the process. Ganymedes ordered the Alexandrians to repair as many ships as possible. They readied...
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interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. These planetary-mass moons are planned to be studied...
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large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Ganymede, the largest of the four, is larger than the planet Mercury...
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1036 Ganymed (redirect from Ganymede (asteroid))
the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924, and named after Ganymede from Greek mythology. With a diameter of approximately 35 kilometers (22...
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Apollodorus, 1.1.7. Hansen, p. 216; Apollodorus, 1.1.7. Diodorus Siculus, 7.70.2; see also 7.65.4. Diodorus Siculus, 7.70.2–3. Diodorus Siculus, 7.65.4. Diodorus...
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quests. Zeus' cup-bearer Ganymede responds to the ad, needing help because his chalice of immortality has been stolen and Ganymede needs to recover it before...
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considers Tithonus a "corrective" example to the myth of Ganymede: "the example of Ganymedes promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting...
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"ruler of the people") was a Trojan king, son of Ilus and thus nephew of Ganymede and Assaracus. Laomedon was variously identified with different parents...
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However, Arsinoë then escaped from the capital with her mentor, the eunuch Ganymedes, and took command of the Egyptian army. She also proclaimed herself Queen...
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Laius and Chrysippus Marsyas and Olympus Minos and Atymnius Minos and Ganymede Minos and Miletus Minos and Theseus Nisus and Euryalus Orestes and Pylades...
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Las Incantadas (category Ganymede (mythology))
the motion of flight is achieved with Ganymede's toes, which are barely touching the base of the pillar. Ganymede is almost fully nude, only wearing a...
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Europa, and Ganymede have silicate mantles; Io's ~1,100 kilometers (680 miles) silicate mantle is overlain by a volcanic crust, Ganymede's ~1,315 kilometers...
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second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede. In the Solar System it is the third-largest moon after Ganymede and Saturn's largest moon Titan, and nearly...
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