View Ganimedes Zeus Images. Ganymede was a trojan prince in greek mythology, known for his beauty. The myth of zeus and ganymede has many identities, one of which is an ancient cretan teaching myth, showing the way to an honorable love between males.
He became cupbearer to the olympians.
In greek mythology, ganymede is a divine hero whose homeland was troy. He was the son of tros of dardania, from whose name troy was supposedly derived, and of callirrhoe. A pair of divine horses, and hermes another version states that zeus compensated ganymede's father with golden vine. Ganymede was the son of king tros of troy.