TRIGGER WARNING: abduction
The common denominator in abduction myths is not the victim's gender, but their beauty.
Ganymedes filius Troili filii Priami cum prima forma ceteris Troianis preferretur et assiduis venationibus in Ida silva exerceretur, ab armigero Iovis, scilicet aquila quae quondam sibi fulmina deferebat, in caelum raptus est et factus est pincerna deorum, quod officium prius occupaverat Hebe filia MInois filii Iovis. Vel aliter: Iuppiter, ne infamiam virentis, id est masculini, concubitus subiret, versus in aquilam ex Ida monte rapuit eum et fecit eum pincernam in caelo.
--Vatican Mythographers 1.181
Ganymede, the son of Priam's son
Troilius, was the most beautiful youth and the most talented hunter among the
Trojans. When he was training on Mt. Ida, he was snatched up by Jupiter's thunderbird, [the eagle that once bore the
god's thunderbolt]. The youth was taken
up into heaven and assigned to be the Cupbearer of the Gods, a position that
had previously been filled by Hebe, the daughter of Jupiter's son Minos. Others say that Jupiter turned into an eagle, stole him from Mt. Ida,
and made him the Cupbearer in heaven, lest the king of the gods get mocked for being in an affair with a man
VATICAN
MYTHOGRAPHERS |
MAP: |
Name: ??? Date: 10th c. CE (?) Works:
Mythographi Vaticani* |
REGION UNKNOWN |
BIO: |
Timeline: |
Little is
known about the author or origin of the collection of myths known as the Vatican
Mythographers, but the work’s first editor Angelo Mai found the
collection on a manuscript dating back to the 10th century CE.
This volume is a collection of three different mythographers who have
assembled various Greco-Roman myths; although many of these myths are basic
summaries in Latin, some of them are either analyzed as allegories or
compared to Christian thought. |
LATE LATIN (10th c. CE ?) |
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