It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[#Sophokles] in his Colchian Women, speaking of Ganymede, says—
μηροῖς ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα
Inflaming with his thighs mighty Zeus"
Sophokles, Kolchides cited in Deipnosophistaí 13.79 by Athenaios Naukrátios
🏛️ Zeus seduces Ganymede, detail from a hydria attributed to the Eupolis Painter
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"And Dardanos' child, Ganymedes, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings." #Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
🏛️ Neoclassical relief of #Zeus and #Ganymedes, wall decoration in Hamburger Kunsthalle.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"The gods then drew lots for a share of the rule. #Zeus won the lordship of the sky, #Poseidon that of the sea, and Plouton the rule of Hades' realm."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Akragas, five cities of that name. The first is in #Sicily, named for the river flowing past it. [...] Others say the city is named for Akragas, the son of #Zeus and Asterope, the daughter of Okeanos."
Stephanus Byzantius, Ethica A 167 s. v. Ἀκράγαντες
"The author of the Cypria says that #Thetis, to please #Hera, avoided union with #Zeus, at which he was enraged and swore that she should be the wife of a mortal. Hesiod also has the like account."
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 57
"Kronian #Zeus, whose scepter is the thunderbolt, strong-spirited,
Father of all, beginning and end of all,
Earth-shaker, increaser and purifier, indeed All-shaker,
God of thunder and lightning, Zeus the planter."
Orphic Hymn 15 to Zeus
🏛️ Zeus-Jupiter's head crowned with laurel and ivy, sardonyx cameo