Ganymede most commonly refers to:
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Ganymede (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Ganymede ( ) or Ganymedes ( ; ) is a Greek hero, divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most handsome of mortals and tells the story of how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-be ...
, Trojan prince in Greek mythology, or his nephew of the same name
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Ganymede (moon)
Ganymede is a natural satellite of Jupiter and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest and most massive in the Solar System. Like Saturn's largest moon Titan (moon), Titan, it is larger than the planet Mercury (planet), Mercury, but ...
, Jupiter's largest moon, named after the mythological character
Ganymede, Ganymed or Ganymedes may also refer to:
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Ganymede (band), a 2000s American band
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Ganymed (band), a 1970s Austrian disco band
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Ganymedes (eunuch)
Ganymedes (died early 47 BC) was a eunuch in the court of Cleopatra VII who proved an able adversary of Julius Caesar.
Life
Ganymedes was the tutor of Cleopatra's half-sister and rival, Arsinoe. When civil war broke out between Ptolemy XIII an ...
, tutor of Arsinoe IV of Egypt and adversary to Julius Caesar
* ''Ganymedes'', a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus ''
Narcissus''
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"Ganymed" (Goethe), a poem by Goethe
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Ganymede (software)
Ganymede is an open source network directory management framework, designed to allow administrator teams to collaboratively manage subsets of an organization's directory services, such as NIS, DNS, Active Directory / LDAP, DHCP, and RADIUS, amon ...
, a GPL-licensed network directory management system
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1036 Ganymed
1036 Ganymed, provisional designation ', is a stony asteroid on a highly Orbital eccentricity, eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor asteroid, Amor group. It was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Berge ...
, an asteroid
* , British prison hulk that was moored in Chatham Harbour, Kent, England
* , a United States Navy vessel in World War II
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Rosalind (''As You Like It'') or Ganymede, a character in ''As You Like It'' by William Shakespeare
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Ganymede, a Marvel Comics character
See also
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Ganymede City
''3001: The Final Odyssey'' is a 1997 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the fourth and final book in Clarke's '' Space Odyssey'' series.
Plot summary
The novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bio ...
, a term coined by Arthur C. Clarke in his science fiction novel ''3001: The Final Odyssey''
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Ganymede Heights
The Ganymede Heights consist of rounded ridges with extensive rock outcrops rising to about , between Jupiter Glacier and Ablation Valley on the eastern side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surv ...
, rounded ridges with extensive rock outcrops on the eastern side of Alexander Island, Antarctica
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Grahame-White Ganymede
The Grahame-White Ganymede was a prototype British heavy night bomber intended to serve with the Royal Air Force in the First World War. A large, three-engined, twin-boom biplane, the sole prototype Ganymede did not fly until after the war ...
, a prototype British heavy night bomber intended to serve with the Royal Air Force in the First World War
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The Ganymede Club
''The Ganymede Club'' is a 1995 science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield. A mystery and a thriller, the story unravels in the same universe that Sheffield imagined in '' Cold as Ice''. Shortly after humanity begins colonisati ...
, a 1995 science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield
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The Ganymede Takeover
''The Ganymede Takeover'' is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writers Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. It is an alien invasion novel, and similar to Dick's earlier solo novel '' The Game-Players of Titan''.
Plot summary
The novel tak ...
, a 1967 science fiction novel by American writers Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson
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The Goddess of Ganymede
''The Goddess of Ganymede'' is a science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information tec ...
, a science fiction novel by American writer Mike Resnick
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The Rape of Ganymede (disambiguation) ''The Rape of Ganymede'', referring to the Greek god Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times ...
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Ganymedidae
The Ganymedidae are a family of parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa.
Taxonomy
There is one genus in this family - ''Ganymedes''.
The type species for this family and genus is ''Ganymedes anaspidis''.
Other species in this genus include ''Gan ...
, a family of parasites
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Ganimedes, a horse
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