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[[File:Philippides - Willoughby Vera - 1925.png|thumb|center|<i>Philippides</i> by Willoughby Vera. Illustration from <i>A Vision of Greece</i> (1925).]]


From <i>[[Ancient Greece]]: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great</i>, Third Edition, edited by Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland (London; New York: Routledge, 2010). First edition published in 1994 by Routledge.

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<b>4.75 <i>Inscriptiones Graecae</i> I<sup>3</sup> 1399: An Oath for [[Pederasty in ancient Greece|Love of a Boy]]</b>

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A slab of marble from the Attic countryside, with crude archaic lettering, <i>c</i>. 500 BC, recording the heroic love of Gnathios for a younger boy, for whom he swore an oath that he would go to war; the boy presumably erected this as a memorial to Gnathios. [<i>IG</i> I<sup>2</sup> 920.]
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Here a man swore a solemn oath for love of a boy<br>
To mingle in strife and tearful war.<br>
I am sacred to Gnathios, who lost his life in war ...
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[[File:Gravestone Showing Youth And Boy As Lovers.jpg|thumb|center|Marble Grave Stele with [[Erastes]], [[Eromenos]] and Rooster, c. 465 BCE. Rhodes, Archaeological Museum, Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights, Γ 1640.]]

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

==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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