Ganymede

Role: cupbearer · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 24

In Book 5, Chapter 24, Ganymede was carried off by the gods to serve as Zeus’s cupbearer, while his father Tros received horses for his son. The same chapter records a votive offering depicting Zeus and Ganymede, dedicated by Gnathis and made by Aristocles, pupil and son of Cleœtas.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ganymede was carried off by the gods to serve as Zeus’s cupbearer, while Tros received horses.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Zeus Tros
  • “Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son.”
• Gnathis dedicated a Zeus-and-Ganymede votive offering made by Aristocles, pupil and son of Cleœtas.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Gnathis Aristocles Cleœtas Zeus
  • “And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”

Book 5 · Chapter 24

• with Zeus (Ganymede was cupbearer to Zeus.) “The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son.”
• parent: Tros (Tros is identified as Ganymede's father.) “The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son.”
• with Gnathis (Gnathis dedicated the votive offering depicting Zeus and Ganymede.) “And opposite it are some votive offerings in a row, statues of Zeus and Ganymede. The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son. And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”
• with Aristocles (Aristocles made the work depicting Zeus and Ganymede.) “And opposite it are some votive offerings in a row, statues of Zeus and Ganymede. The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son. And this was a votive offering of Gnathis the Thessalian, and the work of Aristocles the pupil and son of Cleœtas.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.