Ganymede

Family: Troy · Role: companion of Zeus · First appears: Euripides, Orestes — Scene 9

Euripides, Orestes — Scene 9

• with Zeus (The text describes Ganymede as Zeus's companion.) “O wretched Dardania, warlike school of Ganymede, the companion of Jove!”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 7

• with Zeus (Ganymede is described as Zeus's beloved.) “The Dardan, [Phrygian Ganymede,] dear delight of Jove's bed”

Euripides, The Cyclops — Scene 4

• with Polypheme (Polypheme claims to have brought Ganymede from Dardanus.) “By Heaven thou art! Whom from the realms of Dardanus I bore.”
• admirer: Polypheme “Ganymede himself Appears in matchless beauty.”
• with Silenus (Silenus claims to be Ganymede while intoxicated.) “I, O Cyclops, Am Jove’s own Ganymede.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.