It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymedes by Zeus. Several people are standing around when #Zeus lifts up the Trojan prince into the air but they can't do anything to stop it.

🏛️ Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Meet these superb golden earrings consisting of a honeysuckle palmette below which hangs a finely worked 3D figure of #Ganymedes in the clutches of #Zeus, who has assumed the guise of an eagle to carry him off to Mount Olympos. The airborne theme is ingeniously adapted here as earrings hang freely in space.

🏛️ Greek, ca. 330–300 BCE

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Roman marble sculpture group of Ganymedes with his hunting dog and Zeus in the shape of an eagle.

🏛️ #Ganymedes and Zeus in the shape of an eagle, Roman copy of a 340-320 BCE bronze sculpture by Leochares. Today in the Vatican Museum.

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Roman bronze figure of Zeus-Jupiter on an ancient pedestal. The god probably once held a sceptre in his left hand and a thunderbolt in his right.

🏛️ Paramythia, 100-199 CE. Today in the British Museum.

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡

Roman bronze figure of Zeus-Jupiter on an ancient pedestal. The god probably once held a sceptre in his left hand and a thunderbolt in his right.

🏛️ Paramythia, 100-199 CE. Today in the British Museum.

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