(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - The Conventional Pederastic Ancient Greek Lyrical Motif of the Secondary Hair Growth of a Young Male Beloved Signalling the Decline in His Physical Attractiveness, as Featured in a Poem by Asclepiades of Adramyttium

A boy running with hoop and food. Attic red-figure cup by the Colmar Painter, ca. 500–450 BC. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1886.587.

From Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Footnote omitted.

6.54 Asclepiades of Adramyttium, AP 12.36

Now you ask, when fine down creeps
Below your temples and sharp hairs upon your thighs.
Then you say, “For me this is sweeter.” Would someone also say
That the dry stubble is better than the smooth corn?

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.

See also

• Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of "The Greek Anthology" (book)
• 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

• THE EPIGRAMS OF ASKLEPIADES OF SAMOS (Greek Love Through the Ages)
• THE EPIGRAMS OF STRATON OF SARDIS (Greek Love Through the Ages)
• PURSUIT AND FLIGHT BY SIR KENNETH DOVER (Greek Love Through the Ages)
• DID THE GREEKS PEDICATE THEIR LOVED BOYS? (Greek Love Through the Ages)