View source for (Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - The Engrossing Influence of Pederastic Sexual Pleasure on the Behavior of Men, as Stated in a Passage from the 'Oeconomicus' by Xenophon

[[File:MAN - Ánfora - Dos varones cortejan a un efebo.jpg|thumb|center|Two men court an ephebe. Attic red-figure amphora by the Pig Painter, ca. 470–460 B.C. Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1999.99.86.]]


From <i>[[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[Homosexuality]]</i> by K. J. Dover (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989). First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. in England in 1978.

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Compare Xen. <i>Oec</i>. 12.13f.:

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‘In my opinion,’ said Iskhomakhos, ‘those who are distraught over sex, (<i>duserōtes tōn aphrodīsiōn</i>, ‘in love, to their misfortune, with sexual intercourse’) ‘cannot be taught to care about anything more than that. It is not easy to discover any hope or concern more pleasurable than concern for [[Paidika (dictionary)|paidika]] ...’.
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[[File:Pederastic erotic scene.jpg|thumb|center|[[Pederasty in ancient Greece|Pederastic]] erotic scene: [[Intercrural intercourse (dictionary)|Intercrural sex]] between a [[Adolescence|teenager]] and a young man. Fragment of an Attic black-figure cup, c. 550–525 BC. Paris, Musée du Louvre, F 85 Bis.]]

==See also==
*[[Symposium (Xenophon)]]
*[[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)]]
*[[Pederasty in ancient Greece]]
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[Philosophy of ancient Greek pederasty]]
*[[Spartan pederasty]]
*[[Theban pederasty]]
*[[Young friend (dictionary)]]

==External links==
*[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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