Ganymede

In Ryan Tracy's "The Unqueering of As You Like It," he explains that Ganymede is a known "homoerotically" name because it refers to a beautiful boy whose love the gods wanted (Tracy 26). Zeus, the god of thunder, fell in love with Ganymede and kidnapped him to make him his cupbearer and lover (Encyclopedia Mythica). When Duke Frederick sentenced Rosalind to banishment, Rosalind devised a plan to leave…

A Review of The Greeks and Greek Love, James Davidson Davidson, James. The Greeks and Greek Love: a bold new exploration of the ancient world. Random House, 2007. xxxiv. 644. James Davidson is a history professor at the University of Warwick in England. He has authored Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens, and he contributes…

ancient (despite her emphasis on her own youthful appearance (139-144)) divinity of Venus, and Adonis’s weaker or effeminate masculinity as a youth, is what produces the poem’s association with the myth of Ganymede. In Ovid’s version of the myth, “Jupiter becomes an eagle because he desires Ganymede sexually” (Carter 92), and he carries the Trojan prince away to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer, among other things. This scenario is paralleled in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, as Venus, after…

them by writing that Leander was so beautiful, “Jove might have sipt out nectar from his hand” (I. 62). Later, on his way to Hero’s tower, Leander’s swim across the Hellespont is interrupted by the “lusty god” Neptune (II. 167) who, “Imagining that Ganymede, displeas 'd, / Had left the heavens” (II. 57-8), pulls him under the water. Neptune, as water personified, begins to embrace Leander in ways that recall Venus caressing Adonis (II. 181-191), and Leander similarly refuses to return the god’s…

herself and she chooses the name Ganymede. In the play, no one recognizes her as a girl as she masterfully manipulates herself to be a boy. Once she makes this decision she then decides to run off into the forest with her best friend Celia and the court jester Touchstone. While in the forest Rosalind finds some love poems that Orlando has written to Rosalind and hung from the branches of trees. Ganymede helps Orlando to cure his lovesickness by wooing him, Ganymede, as though he/she were…

period’s rules and boundaries of gender roles. Once they enter Arden, the rules of normal society do not apply. To stress this, Shakespeare challenges gender roles to see if they actually make sense by having Rosalind cross dress and become a young boy, Ganymede, making Orlando act like a woman. Rosalind’s first appearance of As You Like It is at the court, after her father, Duke Senior’s banishment, where she is being very melancholic. To cheer her up, much to her surprise, Rosalind witnesses…

There are 67 moons that orbit Jupiter but the four largest are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The man who found the moons, was Galileo Galilei who was born in Pisa in 1564, in 1581 he went to the University of Pisa to study medicine. But was sidetracked by mathematics, in 1609 is when he built his first telescope but it wasn’t no ordinary telescope. This telescope Galileo built he could discover uncharted territory. To Galileo it seemed plainly obvious that the universe was not the perfect…

Callisto is the outer most moon of the four Galilean moons (The Galilean). The moon has a diameter of 4806km. It is also the third largest moon in out solar system and the second largest moon in the Jovian system, only after Ganymede. Callisto is the most heavily cratered object in the solar system. It is thought to be a long dead world, with hardly any geologic activity on its surface. It also has a very icy surface dating back to almost 4 billion years old (Colorado.Edu). With…

Jupiter the biggest planet in our solar system! It is the 5th planet from the sun. It is the 4th brightest planet. Jupiter was first discovered by Pioneer 10. After Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Ulysses visited Jupiter. Jupiter is mostly made up of gases. Jupiter has a combination of hydrogen and helium. With traces of water, Methane, Ammonia and rock. Jupiter has a similar composition to Saturn but Jupiter most likely has a core of rocky material. Jupiter has a mass 1.8986*10(27)…

about two important homosexual relationships, Jupiter and Ganymede as well as Apollo and Hyacinthus. In the story about Jupiter and Ganymede, Jupiter fell in love with Ganymede who was tending to some sheep when he was kidnapped by an eagle. Jupiter either sent the eagle that took Ganymede or was Jupiter disguised as an eagle. Jupiter eventually made Ganymede immortal and his personal cupbearer, but after witnessing Hera’s jealousy of Ganymede, he was turned into the constellation Aquarius. In…