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Rembrandt - Zeus and Ganymede

May 28, 2008

Rembrandt - Rape of Ganymede

Rembrandt - Rape of Ganymede

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Zeus and Ganymede

When Zeus kidnapped the most beautiful of mortals, the Trojan prince Ganymede, from Mt. Ida, he paid Ganymede's father with immortal horses. Ganymede's father was King Tros, the eponymous founder of Troy. Ganymede replaced Hebe as cupbearer for the gods.

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