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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 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]
This older man would educate the youth in the ways of Greek life and the responsibilities of adulthood. [9] [10] The rite of passage undergone by Greek youths in the tribal prehistory of Greece evolved into the commonly known form of Greek pederasty after the rise of the city-state, or polis. Greek boys no longer left the confines of the ...
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 ...
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.
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Ephorus' magnum opus was a set of 29 books recounting a universal history.The whole work, edited by his son Demophilus—who added a 30th book—contained a summary description of the Sacred Wars, along with other narratives from the days of the Heraclids up until the taking of Perinthus in 340 BC by Philip of Macedon, covering a time span of more than seven hundred years.