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Zeus accosting Ganymedes

Attic red-figure pelike, 
fifth century BCE. 
National Museum, Athens

Zeus accosting Ganymede

The god's scepter is shown
penetrating the boy's hoop,
in symbolic allusion of
the sexual nature of their
relationship.


Attic red-figure pelike,
fifth century BCE.
National Museum, Athens


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