Ganymede (pronounced GAH-nuh-meed) is a youth in Greek mythology who is abducted by Zeus because of his great beauty and brought to Mount Olympus to serve as cupbearer. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ganymede/ #History #Ganymede #GreekCulture #GreekLiterature

🪷 August 5th is #NationalUnderwearDay #Ganymede attends #Zeus eagle wearing a jockstrap thanks to #Elmgreen/#Dragset. Sculpture by #Thorvaldsen. #UnderwearDay 🪷

@AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @histodons @mythology The myth of #Ganymede leads to what may be the raunchiest homoerotic passage of #Plato in the Phaedrus:

>"[255c] then the fountain of that stream which Zeus, when he was in love with Ganymede, called “desire” flows copiously upon the lover; and some of it flows into him, and some, when he is filled, overflows outside;"

Although it's mostly how *Eros *as desire helps elevate the soul to the Gods, I think we can read the cruder sex joke into it!

Two moons in our solar system, Ganymede and Titan, are bigger than planet Mercury.

#science #sciencefacts #moons #planets #ganymede #titan #mercury

La mission spatiale Juice est-elle une mission d’exobiologie ?

Désormais en ligne : le webinaire de la SFE donné le 15 Juin 2023 à 17h par John Carter, astronome adjoint à l’IAS et au LAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYNgRDhqHWQ&lc=UgyVq8VxHC1JIsDwcCl4AaABAg

JUICE est une mission majeure de l’ESA qui va explorer de façon complète Jupiter, ses anneaux et ses lunes dans les années 2030.

#exobiologie #Jupiter #europe #callisto #ganymède #exploration

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

#DayOfZeus #Ganymede #Mythology #EtruscanArt #antiquidons @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

"[Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of #Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty #Zeus"

Sophokles, Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons #GreekRomanArt #Ganymedes

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

#DayOfZeus #Ganymede #Mythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

Juice is Fully Deployed. It’s Now in its Final Form, Ready to Meet Jupiter’s Moons in 2031 https://www.universetoday.com/161607/juice-is-fully-deployed-its-now-in-its-final-form-ready-to-meet-jupiters-moons-in-2031/ #jupitericymoonexplorer(juice) #europeanspaceagency(esa) #moonsofjupiter #galileanmoons #jupitersmoons #juicemission #solarsystem #spacecraft #callisto #ganymede #jupiter #europa #juice

Ganymede (pronounced GAH-nuh-meed) is a youth in Greek mythology who is abducted by Zeus because of his great beauty and brought to Mount Olympus to serve as cupbearer. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ganymede/ #History #Ganymede #GreekCulture #GreekLiterature

🪷 11 June the #StarOfAntinous rises above horizon. The Constellation of #Antinous is overhead nightly now til Oct. #Hadrian's astronomers said it was #Antinoos taking his place as a star in the (hitherto) #Ganymede constellation near #Aquila the Eagle: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-rise-of-star-of-antinous.html 🪷

"There is some pleasure in loving a youth, since once in fact even the son of Kronos [#Zeus], king of the immortals, fell in love with #Ganymedes, seized him, carried him off to Olympos, and made him divine, keeping the lovely bloom of youth."

Theognis, Fragment 1.1345

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #ancientGreece
@antiquidons #mosaic #MosaicMonday #GreekRomanArt #Ganymede

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.

#DayOfZeus #Zeus #Ganymede #Mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

"Impact cratering happens on every solid body in the Solar System. In fact, it is the dominant process affecting the surfaces on most extraterrestrial bodies today.

On Earth, however, such craters are often lost over time by active geological processes, but elsewhere in the Solar System there are some truly majestic examples of impact craters preserved for all to see.

Here, we pick our highlights of what the Solar System has to offer." #space #craters #science #astronomy #SolarSystem #geology #astrogeology #exogeology #Moon #Mars #Ganymede #Ceres #Venus

5 incredible craters that will make you fall in love with the grandeur of our Solar System https://theconversation.com/5-incredible-craters-that-will-make-you-fall-in-love-with-the-grandeur-of-our-solar-system-201188

The cup-bearer, a rare exemplar of the ancient-modern Cycladic style: "The outstretched right arm, with the slightly flexed elbow, profters a small beaker. The freely extended hand is an extremely rare feature in Cycladic sculpting". 2800-2300 BCE #AncientArt #Art #sculpture #AncientGreek #Cyclades #Aegean #Greece #Ganymede #mythology #archaeology

Tomorrow, on May 7th, at least 15 #planetarium|s in Europe will celebrate the #centennial of this kind of space theater as well as the launch of the #JUICE mission three weeks ago: https://esa.int/About_Us/Exhibitions/Visit_ESA_in_your_Planetarium - note that the show https://planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/calendar/europa-fliegt-zum-jupiter.17604051 in #Bochum, Germany, begins at 18:00 CEST already (and is in German while most others are a #domecast from Hamburg, produced entirely in English). The picture on the right shows preparations there, with JUICE's primary target #Ganymede on the #dome.

As JUICE struggles with antenna deployment, program manager highlights status of the mission
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/04/juice-status-post-launch/

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) latest interplanetary mission that is set to explore Jupiter and… The post As JUICE struggles with antenna deployment, program manager highlights status of the mission appeared first on…
#European #Featured #International #Other #Uncrewed #Ariane_5 #Callisto #ESA #Europa #Europa_Clipper #Ganymede #icy_mo

Jupiter & Ganymede, NASA Juno Mission Perijove 50

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

https://flic.kr/p/2oub75V

#Jupiter #Ganymede #Juno #JunoCam #Space #Science

"The liftoff kicked off an ambitious mission to study Jupiter and three of its biggest, most intriguing moons — #Ganymede, #Callisto and #Europa, all of which are thought to harbor big liquid-water oceans beneath their icy shells."

Europe launches #JUICE mission to study icy #Jupiter ocean moons | #SpaceExploration #Ariane5
https://www.space.com/europe-launches-juice-mission-jupiter-ocean-moons

The European space agency ESA just launched a mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter, possibly to look for life. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2023/04/14/european-space-agency-juice-mission-to-jupiter-s-icy-moons-blasts-off_6022952_143.html #ESA #space #Jupiter #Europa #Ganymede #io these were some of the moons that got astronomer Galileo Galilei in a bit of trouble.