Nov. 12th, 2023

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This is one of those things which I suspect in the medium future could be done by a language model; I got the list of moons of Jupiter from Wikipedia, looked up each name in Wikipedia and wrote a sentence about who the person was with particular reference to their connection to Zeus.

I asked ChatGPT to turn my tab-separated file into a table; it produced me some HTML which was heavy on the CSS to describe the precise shape of the table, then converted the first three lines and said '<!-- Add more rows as needed -->', so I did the conversion in Excel instead.

The first couple of dozen were fairly straightforward; the next two dozen indicated that a lot of authors had a list of Muses which was neither the three Boetoian Muses of tune, ceremony and memory, or the nine Calliope Clio Euterpe Thalia Melpomene Terpsichore Erato Polyhymnia Urania whose statues you would anticipate to appear on any number of neoclassical academic buildings.



















































IIoLover of Zeus (who transformed her into a cow and was then forced to hand over the cow to Hera)
IIEuropaLover of Zeus (who transformed her into a cow), mother of King Minos
IIIGanymedeHandsome boy transported to heaven on Zeus transformed to an eagle to serve as a cupbearer
IVCallistoLover of Zeus (who seduced her by adopting the shape of Artemis), mother of Arcas, transformed into a bear by Hera
VAmaltheaFoster-mother of Zeus
VIHimaliaLover of Zeus, mother of Spartaeus, Kronios and Kytos
VIIElaraLover of Zeus, mother of Tityos
VIIIPasiphaeNothing to do with Zeus (mother of the Minotaur, daughter of Helios; doublet of Europa)
IXSinopeNon-lover of Zeus (abducted, Zeus ‘swore to fuifil her dearest wish’, her dearest wish was to remain a virgin)
XLysitheaLover of Zeus, daughter of Oceanus
XICarmeLover of Zeus, mother of Britomartis
XIIAnankeLover of Zeus, mother of the Fates
XIIILedaLover of Zeus (notoriously ‘in the form of a swan’)
XIVThebeNymph (unclear whether the daughter of Megacleite or Iodame by Zeus)
XVAdrasteaDaughter of Zeus by Ananke
XVIMetisFirst wife of Zeus
XVIICalirrhoeLover of Zeus, daughter of Achelous
XVIIIThemistoLover of Zeus, daughter of Inachus
XIXMegacliteLover of Zeus, mother of Thebe and Locrus
XXTaygeteLover of Zeus, mother of Lacedaemon
XXIChaldeneLover of Zeus, mother of Solymos
XXIIHarpalykeLover of Zeus in some sources, more notably the subject of incest by her father the king of Arcadia
XXIIIKalykeLover of Zeus, mother of either Endymion or Aethlius
XXIVIocasteVariant of Jocasta mother of Oedipus, nothing to do with Zeus
XXVErinomeLover of Zeus, pushed his way by Venus as a punishment
XXVIIsonoeLover of Zeus; a Danaiid
XXVIIPraxidikeAn epithet of Persephone daughter of Zeus
XXVIIIAutonoeLover of Zeus; mother of the Charites
XXIXThyoneLover of Zeus; mother of Dionysus; aka Semele
XXXHermippeDaughter-in-law of Zeus (wife of son of Isonoe)
XXXIAitneLover of Zeus; personification of Mount Etna; mother of the twin Sicilian gods of geysers
XXXIIEurydomeLover of Zeus; mother of the Graces according to some authors
XXXIIIEuantheLover of Zeus; mother of the Graces according to some other authors
XXXIVEuporieDaughter of Zeus; a Hora; goddess of abundance
XXXVOrthosieDaughter of Zeus; a Hora; goddess of prosperity
XXXVISpondeDaughter of Zeus; a Hora; presides over the seventh hour
XXXVIIKaleDaughter of Zeus by Autonoe; some authors have her as wife of Hephaestus
XXXVIIIPasitheeDaughter of Zeus by Autonoe; wife of Hypnos, presides over hallucinations
XXXIXHegemoneDaughter of Zeus; a Grace
XLMnemeDaughter of Zeus; one of the Three Original Boeotian Muses
XLIAoedeDaughter of Zeus; another of the Three Original Boeotian Muses
XLIIThelxinoeDaughter of Zeus; fourth of the Three Original Muses in some sources
XLIIIArcheDaughter of Zeus; fourth of the Three Original Muses in other sources
XLIVKallichoreDaughter of Zeus; a Nymph, sometimes considered a Muse
XLVHelikeNurse of Zeus during his infancy on Crete
XLVICarpoDaughter of Zeus; a Hora; in charge of autumn, ripening and harvesting
XLVIIEukeladeDaughter of Zeus; John Tzetzes in 12th-century Byzantium stated that an unnamed Greek writer considered her a Muse
XLVIIICylleneDaughter of Zeus; a Naiad
XLIXKoreAlternative name for Persephone (means ‘daughter’, ie of Demeter)
LHerseDaughter of Zeus and Selene; responsible for dew
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~twomack/visualise-spherebox.html

(needs Javascript and a browser new enough to speak WebGL)

It should look a bit like this, but moving



I am guessing that a set of metal or plastic spheres with ±0.05mm diameter tolerances on the diameters is not something that can be manufactured at reasonable price, though Google has swiftly pointed me at the Precision Plastic Ball Company of 70 Main Street, Addingham, West Yorkshire

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