μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
The motif on our shelf — written from the served texts; every claim cited  receipt

Two served texts carry Ganymede, and they disagree about the vehicle. In Homer, Aeneas’ pedigree reaches “godlike Ganymedes, who became the most beautiful of mortal men”: “Him the gods caught up to be cupbearer to Zeus”, “that he might dwell among immortals” [The Iliad, Book XX]. No bird — the gods themselves do the taking, and the cup is poured for Zeus. In Apollodorus the scene has hardened into the familiar picture: “This Ganymede, for the sake of his beauty, Zeus caught up on an eagle” and “appointed him cupbearer of the gods in heaven” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII]. Frazer’s note on that page draws the line between the two: the early versions “do not mention the eagle as the agent”; “The bird figures conspicuously in later versions” of the myth and in art [ibid., editor’s note]. The office is stable — beauty the qualification, heaven the workplace — while the abduction machinery is negotiable. Thompson’s single row for this address is Frazer’s Ganymede note; the Iliad page arrived through the candidate lane and survived reading.

Witnesses: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII · The Iliad, Book XX

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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Filed under Attendants and servants of the gods.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Cupbearer of the gods is god of smith-workCupbearer of the gods controls waters
Filed beside it
Animals as attendants of godMessenger of the godsWatchman of the godsDoorkeeper of the godsScribe of the godsArmy of the gods. (Cf. A162.)Magician of the godsFisherman of the gods
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Creation of diver (bird)Man carried by birdTransformation: ant to personFuture revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.)Rain produced by prayer. (Cf. D1391.1, D2141.0.7.1.)Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punishedDeath by thunderbolt as punishmentAbandonment on an island. (Marooning.)

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