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Bearded man in a traditional pederastic courtship scene showing the "up-and-down" gesture: one hand reaches to fondle the young man, the other grasps his chin so as to look him in the eye. [71] Athenian amphora, c. 540 BCE [30] [72] There are many pederastic references among the works of the Megaran poet Theognis addressed to Cyrnus (Greek Kyrnos).
Pederastic scene between two males. Attic Psykter. Terracotta. Attributed to Smikros. Around 510 BCE A symposium scene with pederastic couples. Fresco from the north wall of the Tomb of the Diver. 470 BCE. The most common form of same-sex relationships between elite males in Greece was paiderastia (pederasty). It was a relationship between an ...
Pederastic kissing on an Attic kylix (5th century BC). Pederasty or paederasty (/ ˈ p ɛ d ər æ s t i /) is a sexual relationship between an adult man and a boy.It was a socially acknowledged practice in Ancient Greece and Rome and elsewhere in the world, such as Pre-Meiji Japan.
In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamītus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of an older male, usually in a pederastic relationship. [1] It was generally a term of affection and literally means "Ganymede" in Latin, but it was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. [2]
Erômenos (ἐρώμενος) means 'one who is sexually desired' in Greek language and is the past participle of the verb eramai, to have sexual desire.In Greek Homosexuality, the first modern scholarly work on this topic, Kenneth Dover used the literal translation of the Greek word as an English word to refer to the passive partner in Greek homosexual relationship.
Greek love is a term originally used by classicists to describe the primarily homoerotic customs, practices, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks. [1] It was frequently used as a euphemism for both homosexuality and pederasty.
The Catholic Church's position on homosexuality built on scripture and developed in substance from the teachings of the Church Fathers.This was in stark contrast to Greek and Roman attitudes towards same-sex relations including the "(usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male" that is called pederasty.
The Greek title Erastai is the plural form of the term erastēs, which refers to the older partner in a pederastic relationship.Since in Classical Greek terms such a relationship consists of an erastēs and an erōmenos, the title Lovers, sometimes used for this dialogue, makes sense only if understood in the technical sense of "lover" versus "beloved" but is misleading if taken to refer to ...