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1. Task 4 Pair of gold earring with Ganymede and the eagle

2. Description Title:  Pair of gold earrings with Ganymede and the eagle Period:  Classical Date:  ca. 330–300 BCE Culture:  Greek Material:  Gold Dimensions:  total H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); H. of rosette 1 in. (2.5 cm); H. of Ganymede group 1 3/16 in. (3 cm) Accession Number:  37.11.9, .10

3. These earrings consist of a large honeysuckle palmette below which hangs a finely worked three-dimensional figure of the Trojan prince Ganymede in the clutches of Zeus, who has assumed the guise of an eagle. Coveted by Zeus for his beauty, Ganymede was carried off to Mount Olympos to be a cup-bearer for the gods. The pendants are sculptural masterpieces in miniature, which no doubt reflect in their basic conception a famous large-scale bronze group of the same subject, made by Leochares in the first half of the fourth century B.C. The airborne theme is ingeniously adapted here to an object that hangs freely in space.

4. Ganymede Ganymede or Ganymedes , Ancient Greek: Γανυμήδης is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals and tells the story of how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus.

5. Ganymede pouring Zeus a libation (Attic red-figure calyx krater by the  Eucharides Painter, c. 490–480 BCE)

6. Zeus carrying away Ganymede  (Late Archaic terracotta, 480–470 BC)

7. A relief  depicting the eagle of Zeus abducting Ganymede, his Phrygian cap denoting an eastern origin, and a river god

8. Bibliography Grancsay , Stephen V. 1940. "The Art of the Jeweler: A Special Exhibition."  Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , 35(11): p. 216 . Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953.  Handbook of the Greek Collection . pp. 156–57, 289, pl. 129c, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.