G1. The word 'catamite', reasonably popular in the Victorian era but now considered archaic, refers to a young man or boy kept by a man for sexual purposes. The word derives from the Latin form of the name of the young man seen being 'pursued' by Zeus in this depiction of a Greek myth. What's his name?
Clarification: I'm looking for the original Greek name.
A. Ganymede
Clarification: I'm looking for the original Greek name.
A. Ganymede
Catamitus?
ReplyDeleteIt is Ganymede.
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ganymede
ReplyDeleteCatamitus is the Latin name. Not sure if you want that or the Greek name, which I don't know anyway, so there.
ReplyDeleteThe only young boy I remember Zeus hanky-pankying with (not sure I can use that as a verb) was Ganymede, so that.
ReplyDeleteGanymede.
ReplyDeleteGot it cuz of its astronomical namesake.
Ganymede
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Ganymede
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