Greek paederasty is explained by gender inferiority but then accounted for by the "peculiar nature" of the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
It was probably at this comparatively late period that certain foreign customs of a sadly lowering character were adopted by this plastic and impressible people, who learnt the vice of paederasty from the Greeks, and adopted from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Roman paederasty shows itself "Caelius loves Aufilenus and Quintus loves Aufilena -- madly.". From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] Reference
Jupiter, ye Greeks, the law against parricides, and the penalty of adultery, and the ignominy of paederasty. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Halperin wants to make Greek paederasty an inverted form of our inversion: paederasty makes Greek men more manly. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
At very least, Shelley inadvertently explains why paederasty and/or love between men exists in Italy: like Ancient. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
The Romans are supposed to have received their first introduction to paederasty and homosexuality generally, from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Hence Halperin takes paederasty as a cause or symptom of a sign of Greek masculinity — fondness for physical training and wrestling. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
The Greeks contemporary with the Homeric poems were familiar with paederasty, and there is reason to believe that it had been known for ages, even then. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Halperin's sense of how Greek paederasty renders masculinity is complicated by his view that modern homosexuality is about the absence of gender difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
By the time of Plautus, however, the practice of paederasty was much more general, as is clearly proved by the many references which are found in his comedies. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The Erotes juxtaposes signs of masculinity with paederasty, which alone points to the otherness of the Greeks, but it does not make the causal connection between inclination and virility that Halperin argues for. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
And the poet not only explains the alterity of Greek sexuality in terms of gender inequality, but he also denies the existence of gender inequality in Britain to make love between men and paederasty now impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
Eric Clarke largely passes over Shelley's essay; he notes that Shelley could not get over an incongruity between Greek paederasty and Greek philosophy as thus he "postulated wet daydreams as the true source" behind homoeroticism (127). From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality'] Reference
The Romans are supposed to have received their first introduction to paederasty and homosexuality generally, from the Etruscans or from the Greek colonists in Italy, but Suidas (Tharnyris) charges the inhabitants of Italy; with the invention of this vice and it would appear from. From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] Reference
Against Halperin's claim that paederasty renders masculinity, Eva Stehle suggests that masculinity was more performative than Halperin allows; she argues that complex gender codes were used to position speakers within the Symposia, and that men often disconnected from women in order to show their masculinity (227-28). From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
The conditions for paederasty exist in the Church's teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
Again the Roman paederasty shews itself in Caelius's affection for Aufilenus. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
The word translated here as "boys" has, in this context, in the Arabic original, the implication of paederasty. From Wordnik.com. [The Kitáb-i-Aqdas] Reference
A curious dissertation might be formed on the introduction of paederasty after the time of Homer, its progress among the Greeks of Asia and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
This poem shews beyond contradiction that Catullus himself was not free from the vice of paederasty, so universal amongst the Roman youth.v. 10. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
A curious dissertation might be formed on the introduction of paederasty after the time of Homer, its progress among the Greeks of Asia and Europe, the vehemence of their passions, and the thin device of virtue and friendship which amused the philosophers of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
Adultery was first declared to be a capital offence: the frailty of the sexes was assimilated to poison or assassination, to sorcery or parricide; the same penalties were inflicted on the passive and active guilt of paederasty; and all criminals of free or servile condition were either drowned or beheaded, or cast alive into the avenging flames. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
Again, in Catullus, 100, the Roman paederasty shows itself "Caelius loves Aufilenus and Quintus loves Aufilena. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
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