Zeus And Ganymede Analysis

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When discussing the story of Zeus and Ganymede:
Ganymedes was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals
Then Zeus had sex with him, in his eagle form. In Greek and for the Greek males at the time, this was a social custom of paiderastía, which paiderastía meaning, socially acknowledged erotic relationship between an adult male “the erastes” and a young male boy “the eromenos” usually in his teens or even younger. It also meant the love or lover of young boy. Even in Rome society, Roman males’ citizens could have sex with whoever, slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers and even young boys ages 12-20,

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