GANYMEDE A son of the Trojan king Tros and Kallirhoe, Ganymede was found by Zeus on Mount Ida, where he himself had been brought up, and struck with Ganymede's beauty, he carried him off to Olympus, where he took over from Hebe as cup-bearer to the gods. Ganymede was usually represented as a youth of unsurpassed beauty, wearing a Phrygian cap, to identify his origin, and the eagle of Zeus by his side.