Ancient Sources
Ganymede is named by various ancient Greek and Roman authors:
- Homer - Iliad 5.265; Iliad 20.232;
- Homerica - The Little Iliad, Frag 7;
- Homeric Hymns - Hymn V, To Aphrodite, 203-217;
- Theognis - Fragments 1.1345;
- Pindar - Olympian Odes 1; 11;
- Euripides - Iphigenia at Aulis 1051;
- Plato - Phaedrus 255;
- Apollonios Rhodios - Argonautica 3.112f;
- ps-Apollodorus - Bibliotheke 2.104; 3.141;
- Strabo - Geography 13.1.11;
- Pausanias - Guide to Greece V.24.5; V.26.2-3;
- Diodorus Siculus - The Library of History 4.75.3;
- Hyginus
- Fabulae 89; 224; 271;
- Astronomica 2.16; 2.29;
- Ovid - Metamorphoses 10.152;
- Virgil - Aeneid 1.28; 5.252;
- Cicero - De Natura Deorum 1.40;
- Valerius Flaccus - Argonautica 2.414; 5.690;
- Statius
- Thebaid 1.549;
- Silvae 3.4.13;
- Apuleius - The Golden Ass 6.15; 6.24;
- Quintus Smyrnaeus - Fall of Troy 8.427; 14.324;
- Nonnus - Dionysiaca 8.93; 10.258; 10.308; 12.39; 14.430; 15.279; 17.76; 19.158; 25.430; 27.241; 31.252; 33.74; 39.67; 47.98;
- Suda - Ilion; Minos;
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