(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

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 Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989). First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. in England in 1978.

Compare Xen. Oec. 12.13f.:

‘In my opinion,’ said Iskhomakhos, ‘those who are distraught over sex, (duserōtes tōn aphrodīsiōn, ‘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 ...’.

Pederastic erotic scene: Intercrural sex between a 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)
• Athenian pederasty
• Cretan pederasty
• Ephebophilia
• Erastes
• Eromenos
• Greek love
• Historical boylove relationships in ancient Greece
• Pederasty in ancient Greece
• Philosophy of ancient Greek pederasty
• Spartan pederasty
• Theban pederasty

External Links

• PURSUIT AND FLIGHT BY SIR KENNETH DOVER (Greek Love Through the Ages)
• DID THE GREEKS PEDICATE THEIR LOVED BOYS? (Greek Love Through the Ages)