In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. As a beautiful Trojan prince, son of eponymous Tros himself, Ganymede became Zeus's lover and cupbearer to the gods. For the etymology of his name Robert Graves (The Greek Myths) offers ganuesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility." Ganymede - Story. Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia, the setting for more than one myth-element bearing on the e ...

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In Athens, vase-painters often depicted the mythological story, which was so suited to the all-male symposium or formal banquet. The Ganymede myth was treated in recognizable contemporary terms, illustrated with common behavior of homoerotic courtship rituals. On an Attic red-figure vase (ca 450 BCE) in the Louvre, Zeus pursues Ganymede on one side, while on the other side the youth runs away, rolling along a hoop while holding aloft a crowing cock (presumably a courtship gift from Zeus) [1]. On a vase by the "Achilles Painter" Ganyme ...

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Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia, the setting for more than one myth-element bearing on the early mythic history of Troy. Ganymede was there, passing the time of exile many heros undergo in their youth, by tending a flock of sheep or, alternatively, during the chthonic or rustic aspect of his education, while gathering among his friends and tutors. Zeus saw him and fell in love with him instantly, either sending an eagle or assuming his own eagle nature to tr ...

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Some of the moons of the outer planets of the solar system are large enough to be suitable places for colonization. Many of the larger moons contain water ice, liquid water, and organic compounds that might be useful for rocket fuel production among other things. Colonies in the outer solar system could also serve as centres for long term investigation of the planet and the other moons. In particular, robotic devices could be controlled by humans without the very long time delays needed to communicate with Earth. There have also been proposa ...

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1036 Ganymed is the largest Amor asteroid. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924 and is named after Ganymede, the beautiful youth with whom Zeus fell in love. Ganymed is about 32 km in diameter and is an S-type asteroid, meaning that it is highly reflective and composed of nickel-iron mixed with iron- and magnesium-silicates. It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid. In 1998, a radar study of Ganymed by the Arecibo radio telescope produced some images of the asteroid's shape. Although not very detailed, the images reveal a roughly spherical object. One occultation of a star by Ganym ...

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In Greek mythology, Laomedon was a Trojan king and father of Ganymedes, Priam, Astyoche, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Cilla, Aethylla, and Hesione. Tithonus is also described by most sources as Laomedon's eldest legitimate son; and most sources omit Ganymedes from the list of Laomedon's children. Laomedon's wife is variously named (Strymo, Leucippe, Zeuxippe, Placia, Thoösa). He also begot a bastard son named Bucolion on the nymph Abarbarea, as recounted by Homer in the Iliad. Laomedon owned several horses with divine parentage, ...

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A catamite was the younger partner in a pederastic relationship between two males in the ancient world, especially Ancient Rome. The word is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, a corruption of the Greek Ganymedes, the boy who was seduced by Zeus and became his beloved and cupbearer in Greek mythology. Other related archivesGanymedes, Ancient Rome, Etruscan, Greek, Greek mythology, Latin, Zeus, pederastic

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A Cryovolcano is literally, an icy volcano. Cryovolcanoes form on icy moons, and possibly on other low temperature astronomical objects (e.g. Kuiper belt objects). Rather than molten rock, these volcanoes erupt volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane compounds. Collectively referred to as cryomagma, these substances are usually liquids and form flumes, but can also be in vapour form. After eruption cryomagma condenses to a solid form when exposed to the very low surrounding temperature. Cryovolcano - Theories< ...

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William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a pastoral comedy written for a popular audience, in 1599 or early 1600. As You Like It was listed in the Stationers' Register, the period equivalent of copyright, in August 1600. No printed copy of it is known prior to the publication of the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected works in 1623. Though the setting for the play is a duchy in France, Shakespeare's "Forest of Arden" is a pastoral, not a realistic setting. As You Like It - Synopsis. In Shake ...

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To help compare sizes of different areas, here is a list of areas between 10 million km² and 100 million km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. Areas smaller than 10 million square kilometers 10 million km² = 3,860,000 square miles. A square of this area has a side length of 3,160 km. A cube of this surface area has a side length of 1,290 km. A circle of this area has a radius of 1,784 km. A sphere of this surface area has a radius of 892 km. ...

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Bagrām (Also Begram, anciently Kapici or Kapisa) is an antique city 60 kilometers northwest of Kabul in Afghanistan, near today's city of Charikar. It was built at the junction of the Ghorband and the Panjshir valley, acting as a passage point to India on the Silk Road, towards Kabul and Bamiyan. Bagram - Origins. The city was destroyed by Cyrus, restored by Darius, and then fortified and rebuilt by Alexander the Great as Alexandria of the Caucasus. Begram then became one of the capita ...

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The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived. It is a comical burlesque-like play on the same story depicted in book nine of The Odyssey by Homer. Cyclops play - Characters. Silenus Chorus of Satyrs Odysseus The Cyclops Mute: Companions of Odysseus Cyclops play - Background. Odysseus has lost his way on the voyage home from the Trojan War ...

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Aquila (Latin for Eagle; sometimes named the Vulture), is one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, also mentioned by Eudoxus (4th cent. B.C.) and Aratus (3rd cent. B.C.). and now also part of the list of 88 constellations acknowledged by the IAU. It lies roughly at the celestial equator. The alpha star, Altair, is a vertex of the so-called "Summer Triangle". Ptolemy catalogued nineteen stars jointly in this constellation and in the constellation Antinous, which was named in the reign of the emperor H ...

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Callisto (IPA: /kəˈlɪstoʊ/, ka-lis'-toe, Greek Καλλιστώ) is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the solar system, about the same size as the planet Mercury. Callisto moon - Name. Callisto is named after Callisto, one of Zeus's many love interests in Greek mythology. Although the name "Callisto" was suggested by Simon Marius soon after the moon's discovery, t ...

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6 Hebe (hee'-bee, Greek ‘Ήβη) is one of the largest Main belt asteroids, and is probably the parent body of the H chondrite meteorites, which account for a remarkable 40% of all meteorites striking the Earth. 6 Hebe - Discovery. Hebe was the sixth asteroid to be discovered, on July 1, 1847. It was the second and final asteroid discovery by Karl Ludwig Hencke, who had previously found 5 Astraea. The name "Hebe" was proposed by Carl Friedrich Gauss, and refers to the Greek goddess of youth, ...

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In the fictional Power Rangers universe, Alpha 6 is the next Alpha robot in the series of fully-sentient multifunctional automatons and the robot with an attitude--literally. He was put into operation along with the woman who never stopped the questions, Dimitria, after Zordon and Alpha 5 went to the planet Eltar. Alpha 6 was first seen in the Power Rangers: Turbo episode "Shift into Turbo - Part III". He talks a lot like the stereotypical New Yorker (similar voices include Joey Wheeler a.k.a. Katsuya Jonouchi from the s ...

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Ganymede (from Greek and Latin Ganymedes)

The fairest youth among mortals, abducted by Zeus. One interpretation is that when Ganymede, standing for objects of low desire, is seized by the World Lord of a darker cycle, Astraea, goddess of justice and purity, is cast out, and the Golden Age is then over (SD 2:785); astronomically, it stands for an inversion of the earth's poles, which casts down Virgo (Astraea) and brings up Aquarius (Ganymedes).

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Ganymede is composed of silicate rock and water ice, with an ice crust floating over a warmer ice mantle that may contain a layer of liquid water. Indications from the Galileo orbiter data suggest that Ganymede is differentiated into a three layer structure: a small partially molten iron or iron/sulfur core surrounded by a rocky silicate mantle with an icy shell on top. This metallic core suggests a greater degree of heating at some time in Ganymede's past than had previously been proposed. In fact, Ganymede may be similar in its inter ...

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Neptue and its satellites could also be used for colonization, but are farther away, and Neptune has a higher surface gravity than uranus. Its satellites, especially triton, could also be colonized. ...

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