It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"In these lines Apollonios takes over what Ibykos said in his account of the rape of #Ganymede [that he was carried off by a love-smitten Zeus] in his song to Gorgias."
Ibycus, Fragment 289 (from Scholiast on Apollonios of Rhodes)
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Ganymedes, whom #Jupiter is said to have made cupbearer of the gods, snatching him up from his parents because of his beauty."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.29
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"In these lines Apollonios (of Rhodes) takes over what Ibykos said in his account of the abduction of Ganymedes [that he was carried off by a love-smitten Zeus] in his song to Gorgias."
Ibycus, Fragment 289 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes)
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[Constellation] Aquila. This is the eagle which is said to have snatched #Ganymede up and given him to his lover, Jupiter [Zeus] [...] And so it seems to fly above Aquarius, who, as many imagine is Ganymede."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 16
🏛️ #Ganymedes and #Zeus as an eagle, Roman mosaic, 2nd century CE
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"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."
Homer, Iliad 20.232
🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, red-figure vase painting, 5th century BCE