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Recommended Italy Pictures:
View of the Grand Canal
Italian Red Wines
Italian Place by Garoli
Italian Memorabilia
At Portofino
Spaghetti Italiano
Italy 1935 Vintage Print
Tuscan Palazzo
Other picture lists:
Egypt Posters
France Posters, Page 2
Morocco Posters
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Mexico Posters
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China Posters
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Myth: Mythology: Age of Fable, Gods and Heroes
Index | pg. 50 |Previous Page - Next PageHebe, Ganymede ...HEBE AND GANYMEDE
Hebe, the daughter of Juno, and goddess of youth, was cupbearer
to the gods. The usual story is, that she resigned her office on
becoming the wife of Hercules. But there is another statement
which our countryman Crawford, the sculptor, has adopted in his
group of Hebe and Ganymede, now in the gallery of the Boston
Athenaeum. According to this, Hebe was dismissed from her office
in consequence of a fall which she met with one day when in
attendance on the gods. Her successor was Ganymede, a Trojan boy
whom Jupiter, in the disguise of an eagle, seized and carried off
from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, bore up to
heaven, and installed in the vacant place.
Tennyson, in his Palace of Art, describes among the decorations
on the walls, a picture representing this legend:
"There, too, flushed Ganymede his rosy thigh
Half buried in the eagle's down,
Sole as a flying star shot through the sky
Above the pillared town."
And in Shelley's Prometheus, Jupiter calls to his cup-bearer
thus:
"Pour forth heaven's wine, Idaean Ganymede,
And let it fill the Daedal cups like fire."
The beautiful legend of the Choice of Hercules may be found in
the Tatler, No. 97. The same story is told in the Memorabilia of
Xenophon.
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Italy Hotels - Italy Hostels - Italy Sights
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Other popular Italy book pages:
Manzo sugo di Barbabietole (Fillet Beef)
Manzo in Insalata (Marinated Beef)
Fillets of Beef Pistacchios - Filetto
Scalopini di Riso (Beef with Risotto)
Tenerumi alla Piemontese (Tendons of Veal)
Bragiuole di Vitello (Veal Cutlets)
Costolette alla Manza (Veal Cutlets)
Online Italy Books
Italian Renaissance
Italian Recipes
Italian Poetry
Roman Mythology
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Italy Travel Guide
A good starting point for researching Italy for travel or reference.
Venice - Piazza St. Marco (St. Mark's Square)
Venice - Gondola along the Grand Canal
Venice - Walking around Venice Streets
Venice - Pictures from the Venice canals
Venice - From the Train Station to St. Mark's 1
Venice - From the Train Station to St. Mark's 2
Ceasar's European Discovery Pictures. Italy Pg.1
Breathtaking Italy and France
Ceasar's European Discovery Pictures. Italy Pg. 2
Florence and Venice
Arno River in Florence
Campania
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