In Greek mythology (main source: Hom. Il 20,231-235) the son of the Dardanian king Tros (Iliad parva 29,4 PEG I: son of Laomedon), who as the most beautiful human was abducted to the Olympus to serve Zeus as cupbearer in eternal youth and to delight the gods with his beauty. He is either abducted in a windstorm (H. Hom. 5,202), by Iris (in art, possibly already in Ibycus…
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Visser, Edzard (Basle) and
Ameling, Walter (Jena),
“Ganymede”, in:
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