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"Ganymed" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the character of the mythic youth Ganymede is seduced by God (or Zeus) through the beauty of Spring. In early editions of the Collected Works it appeared in Volume II of Goethe's poems in a section of Vermischte Gedichte (assorted poems), shortly following the " Gesang der Geister ...
This story is very briefly told by Goethe in his Italienische Reise. [57] At Chatsworth in the nineteenth century the bachelor Duke of Devonshire added to his sculpture gallery Adamo Tadolini's Neoclassic "Ganymede and the Eagle", in which a luxuriously reclining Ganymede, embraced by one wing, prepares to exchange a peck with the eagle. The ...
The beginning of Goethe's quotation from his hymn Ganymed is carved on the plinth, which reads: "How, in the light of morning, Round me thou glowest, Spring, thou beloved one!" [3] German: "Wie im Morgenglanze — Du rings mich anglühst, — Frühling, Geliebter!!" [4] The bronze is both signed by Hubacher and intended for the donor Wölfflin.
Ganymede, Ganymed or Ganymedes may also refer to: Ganymede (band), a 2000s American band; Ganymed (band), a 1970s Austrian disco band; Ganymedes (eunuch), tutor of Arsinoe IV of Egypt and adversary to Julius Caesar "Ganymed" (Goethe), a poem by Goethe; Ganymede (software), a GPL-licensed network directory management system; 1036 Ganymed, an ...
In her 2001 book Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics, she writes: From the time of its publication to today, Goethe's novel, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities, 1809), has aroused a storm of interpretive confusion. Readers fiercely debate the role of the chemical theory of elective affinities presented in the novel.
In early editions of the Collected Works of Goethe, it appeared in Volume II of his poems in a section of Vermischte Gedichte (assorted poems), shortly following the "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", and the Harzreise im Winter. It is immediately followed by "Ganymed", and the two poems together should be understood as a pair. Both belong ...
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The Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) – commonly known in Hebrew as "ha-Psikhometri" (The Psychometric) – is a standardized test that serves as an entrance exam for institutions of higher education in Israel. The PET covers three areas: quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning and English language.