Ganymede
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Ganymede most often refers to:
Ganymede, Ganymed or Ganymedes may also refer to:
- Ganymede (mythology)Ganymede (mythology)In Greek mythology, Ganymede is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals. In the best-known myth, he is abducted by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as cup-bearer in Olympus. Some interpretations of the myth treat it as an allegory of...
, Trojan prince in Greek mythology - Ganymede (moon)Ganymede (moon)Ganymede is a satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. It is the seventh moon and third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively...
, Jupiter's largest moon, named after the mythological character
Ganymede, Ganymed or Ganymedes may also refer to:
- Ganymedes (eunuch)Ganymedes (eunuch)Ganymedes was a eunuch in the court of Cleopatra VII who proved an able adversary of Julius Caesar.-Life:Ganymedes was the tutor of Cleopatra's half-sister and rival, Arsinoë. When civil war broke out between Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra, Arsinoë sided with Ptolemy, escaping the palace in...
, tutor of Arsinoe IV of Egypt and adversary to Julius Caesar - Ganymed (Goethe)Ganymed (Goethe)Ganymed is a poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, in which the character of the mythic youth Ganymede is seduced by God through the beauty of Spring....
, a poem by Goethe - Ganymede (band)Ganymede (band)Ganymede is a noted American electropop band that has released four albums since May 2000: After the Fall," Euromantique," Space and Time,” and "Operation Ganymede," released in August 2008...
, a 2000s American band - Ganymed (band)Ganymed (band)Ganymed was an Austrian/German space disco band founded in 1977.In 1978, they released their biggest hit, “It Takes Me Higher”, which hit #5 on the Austrian charts for four weeks and also hit #23 on the German charts...
, a 1970s Austrian disco band - 1036 Ganymed1036 Ganymed1036 Ganymed is the largest Amor asteroid, at about 32 km in diameter. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924, and is named after Ganymede, the Trojan prince turned god whom Zeus designated the cupbearer to the Greek gods...
, an asteroid - Ganymede, the name used by Rosalind when she is disguised as a man in Shakespeare's As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
- Ganymede, the servant of the sculptor Pygmalion in the operetta Die schöne GalatheeDie schöne GalatheeDie schöne Galathee is an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by the composer and 'Poly Henrion' ....
by Franz von Suppé - Ganymede, the name of the 2008 annual project release by the Eclipse Software FoundationEclipse (software)Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...