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[[File:Zeus Carries Away a Sleeping Ganymede.png|thumb|center|[[Zeus (mythology)|Zeus]] Carries Away a Sleeping [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]]. Attic red-figure cup by Douris, c. 490–480 B.C. Paris, Musée du Louvre, G 123.]]


From <i>The Cambridge Companion to Archaic [[Ancient Greece|Greece]]</i>, edited by H. A. Shapiro (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

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Likewise, in the poetic corpus of Theognis, we find a number of erotic addresses to and encomia of boys. Thus, for example,
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there is some pleasure in loving a boy ([[Pederasty in ancient Greece|<i>paidophilein</i>]]), since once in fact even the son of Cronus [Zeus], king of the immortals, fell in love with Ganymede, seized him, carried him off to Olympus, and made him divine, keeping the lovely bloom (<i>anthos</i>) of boyhood (<i>paideia</i>). So, don’t be astonished, Simonides, that I too have been revealed as captivated by love for a handsome boy.
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[[File:Zeus abducting Ganymede. Detail.png|thumb|center|Zeus abducting Ganymede (detail). Terracotta sculptural group from Olympia, Greece, ca. 480–470 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Olympia.]]

==See also==
*[[Apollo (mythology)]]
*[[Hyacinth (mythology)]]
*[[Adult friend (dictionary)]]
*[[Age of attraction (dictionary)]]
*[[Athenian pederasty]]
*[[Boylove]]
*[[Cretan pederasty]]
*[[Ephebophilia]]
*[[Erastes]]
*[[Eromenos]]
*[[Greek love]]
*[[Historical boylove relationships in ancient Greece]]
*[[Loved boy (dictionary)]]
*[[Minor-attracted person (dictionary)]]
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[Philosophy of ancient Greek pederasty]]
*[[Spartan pederasty]]
*[[Theban pederasty]]
*[[Young friend (dictionary)]]

==External links==
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0479%3Avolume%3D1%3Atext%3D11%3Asection%3D2 The Elegiac Poems of Theognis (Perseus Digital Library)]
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/greek-practices/pursuit-and-flight-by-sir-kenneth-dover <i>PURSUIT AND FLIGHT</i> BY SIR KENNETH DOVER (Greek Love Through the Ages)]
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/greek-practices/greeks-pedicate-loved-boys-pederasty DID THE GREEKS PEDICATE THEIR LOVED BOYS? (Greek Love Through the Ages)]

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