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- From: kring@pamuk.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:32:18 GMT
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- In article <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu>, udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626) writes:
- >
- >Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
- >club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
- >Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
- >be surprising, considering the other classical
- >allusions in PGW's work?
- >
- >Any ideas?
-
- Ganymede was a Trojan prince. Surely you know that Zeus had affairs with
- a lot of females - Ganymede was his only male lover mentioned in Greek mythology.
-
- Zeus got him a job at the Olymp: he had to serve nectar and ambrosia.
- As you see, "Junior Ganymede" is a very good name for Jeeves' club.
-
- BTW, the moons of Jupiter were named after Zeus' or Jupiter's loved ones, and
- Ganymede is among them; the constellation of Aquarius is Ganymede in the
- process of serving. (water?)
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- What E. von Daeniken, I. Velikovsky and several others could have said but to
- my knowledge didn't:
- "I don't know much about science, but I know what I like!"
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