Ganymede

Family: Ilium · Role: youth and cup-bearer · First appears: Fable 86

Life events

Ganymede is taken to Heaven and made Jupiter’s Cup-bearer.(Fable86 · 📍 Heaven)
- With: Jupiter
- “He is taken up into Heaven, and is made the Cup-bearer of the Divinities.”

admirer: Jupiter (Jupiter desires Ganymede and transforms himself to carry him off.) “The king of the Gods above was once inflamed with a passion for Ganymede, and something was found that Jupiter preferred to be, rather than what he was.”
with Juno (Juno opposes Ganymede serving nectar to Jupiter.) “who even now mingles his cups {for him}, and, much against the will of Juno, serves nectar to Jove.”

with Æsacus (Ganymede is identified as an ancestor of Æsacus.) “his ancestors are Ilus, and Assaracus, and Ganymede,[59] snatched away by Jupiter, and the aged Laomedon, and Priam, to whom were allotted the last days of Troy.”
siblings with Ilus (Ganymede is Ilus's brother.) “Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus”
with Jupiter (Jupiter snatches away Ganymede.) “Ganymede,[59] snatched away by Jupiter”
younger kin: Æsacus “And, if you want to come down to him in one lengthened series, his ancestors are Ilus, and Assaracus, and Ganymede,[59] snatched away by Jupiter, and the aged Laomedon, and Priam, to whom were allotted the last days of Troy.”
parent: Tros “Ovid need not have inserted Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus, and the three were the sons of Tros.”
siblings with Assaracus “Ovid need not have inserted Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus, and the three were the sons of Tros.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.