in Grecian Mythology, a Trojan youth of surpassing beauty, who was carried off by Jupiter to supplant Hebe in the office of cup-bearer to the gods. The king of gods and men presented Tros with two divine horses as a compensation for the loss of his son, who himself was honoured with an immortality of youth. Ganymede is generally represented in works of art as a young man in the first bloom of youth, and wearing the Phrygian cap. At other times he is in the act of being carried off by the eagle of Jove, or is feeding that royal bird from a dish.