Alcibiades
Alcibiades historically was a Greek statesman and general. However, he has been best known posthumously as a disciple and especially the boy love (eromenos) of Socrates. This is clearly seen in Plutarch's life of Alcibiades [1], and in Plato's better-known Symposium. He has been, in post-Renaissance times, a coded symbol of pederasty. [2]
Alcibiades the Schoolboy (L'Alcibiades, fanciullo a scola) is a pro-sodomy dialogue in which Socrates (totally unhistorically) portrays the excellences of sexual love between master and (male) disciple. Wikipedia says: "It is a tour de force of pederastic fantasy and one of the frankest and most explicit texts on the subject to have been written before the twentieth century. It has been called "the first homosexual novel". [3]
