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This is someone from Greek mythology.
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timmy
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Planet out?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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This might help.
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marc
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Ares?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Nope. Ares, I think, sounds rather heterosexual from the descriptions I've been able to find (though you never know with Greeks).
He's not so well-known, but he does share his name with a moon (hence the first photograph).
He is always represented as a very beautiful youth.
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He was a boy taken by Zues to be his cup bearer and lover because of his exceptional beauty. Dont ask me to spell his name but its GMede. You know who im talking about. Gyenamede something like that. Am I right?
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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timmy
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It is said that the word "catamite" is somehiow a corruption of "ganymede". In either case it is a small boy kept for sexual purposes.
Hmm. And I worte a short story named ganymede, too.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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As I recolect, the only moon known to the Greeks was the Moon.
That and the fact that Gannymede was discovered by Gallaleo ion the year 1610
Beyond that, the Sun and the 5 planets were all that was known to the Greeks..... Can you show me the sourse of your information
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MARC
I dont think the greeks named the moon Ganymede. Ganymede was the boys name. In greek mythology Zues took the boy because of his beauty and made him his lover. Whoever discovered the largest moon around Jupiter named it after the boy. I think Jupiter is the Roman name for Zues and ganymede his lover, so it was appropriate to name the the moon ganymede.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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marc
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Ahhhhh..... I see, the astronomical referance was a round about clue..... Not intended to be spot on.....
Clever....
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Yes, Brian is right.
There's certainly a Jovian moon now known to us as Ganymede:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_%28moon%29
Of course, it wasn't named that by the Greeks, who wouldn't have been aware of its existence. However, Simon Marius did have the relationship of Jupiter (Zeus) and Ganymede in mind when he suggested its name.
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Interesting. I didn't know that.
"Ganymede" was also the name of a computer in my house at school. It was a particularly ancient Acorn A420 (about the equivalent of a 386 in PC terms).
For some reason, the word "catamite" is rather popular among public schoolboys.
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