Ganymede or Ganymedes, divine hero from Troy, kidnapped to be Zeus' cupbearer in Olympus. Young man in Phrygian cap and cloak over his shoulder attacked by an eagle (Zeus). From a fragment of an agate gem. Ganimede. Copperplate engraving by after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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