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Condition: Fine Jacket has a few light markings. Page edges have gathered dust and have one small spot. Otherwise as new. Content: Chapter Titles: (Foundations) The Cretans of Ephorus and the Taifali of Ammianus Marcellinus; The Antiquity of the Cretan Traditions; Pederasty and Initiation: Ethnographic Parallels; The Meaning of Initiatory Homosexuality; (Poseidon and the Royal Founders) Pelops and Lais; The Taboo of the Aegidae; Pisatans and Boeotians; (Apollo and Civic Advancement) Hyacinthus, Narcissus and Cyparissus; Adaptations; The Prophets of Apollo; Katapontismoi; Horse Breeders; (Heracles and Apprenticeship for War) Iolaus, an Exemplary Student; Excesses; Traces; Diocles, Diocles and Cleomachus; (Loves and Myths of Dionysus) The Mysteries of Lerna; Glaucus; Dionysus, the Twice-Born; (Cretan Stories) Loves of Minos; The Judge and the Warrior; The Handsome Ganymedes; (Heroes) Meleager the Solitary; Aristomenes the Creator; Actaeon of Corinth; Eurybatus and the Monster of Delphi; Cycnus of Aetolia; Antheus; From Kainis to Kaineus; Achilles, Patroclus and Homeric Love Background / Biography: Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "In his description of Crete, Strabo of Amaseia, a writer who lived in the first century BC, made extensive use of Ephorus, a historian, geographer and ethnographer of the fourth century BC. The passage that touches on our present subject occurs in Strabo's Geography (X 4 21 (483)). They 'have a unique custom in regard to erotic conventions. They do not win the objects of their love (erōmenoi) by persuasion but rather by abduction. The lover apprises the friends and family of the youth three or or more days beforehand that he is planning to abduct him. For them to hide the boy or not permit him to proceed along the ordained path is extremely shameful, since in effect they are publicly admitting that the boy is unworthy to get such a lover. When the parties come together, provided the abductor is an equal or superior in rank or other circumstances to the youth, the boy's friends and family put on a merely token display of resistance and pursuit after the abductor, thus fulfilling what convention requires, after which they happily allow him to take the youth away.'" opening, reference removed Secondhand booksellers |
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