Eagle Caught Ganymede

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And he had sons born to him, Ilus and Erichthonius, of whom Ilus died childless, and Erichthonius succeeded to the kingdom and marrying Astyoche, daughter of Simoeis, begat Tros. On succeeding to the kingdom, Tros called the country Troy after himself, and marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, he begat a daughter Cleopatra, and sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede. This Ganymede, for the sake of his beauty, Zeus caught up on an eagle and appointed him cupbearer of the gods in heaven; and Assaracus had by his wife Hieromneme, daughter of Simoeis, a son Capys; and Capys had by his wife Themiste, daughter of Ilus, a son Anchises, whom Aphrodite met in love's dalliance, and to whom she bore Aeneas and Lyrus, who died childless.


- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library, Book 3, Chapter 12, Section 2


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(ll. 17-24)64 . . . Cleopatra . . . the daughter of . . . But an eagle caught up Ganymede for Zeus because he vied with the immortals in beauty . . . rich-tressed Diomede; and she bare Hyacinthus, the blameless one and strong . . . whom, on a time Phoebus himself slew unwittingly with a ruthless disk . . . "


- Fragment of Hesiod's Catalogues of Women, taken from Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1359, translated by H. G. Evelyn-White


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