(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - Pederastic Desire in a Fragment of a Poem by Anacreon

Anacreon of Teos (c. 582–485 BC). Marble portrait. Roman, Imperial Period, 2nd or 3rd century AD. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

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

1.33 Anacreon, fragment 360 PMG

Boy with a maiden’s glance,
I seek you out, but you hear not,
Unknowing that you are the charioteer
Of my soul.

Cupid and Anacreon (1860) by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Pencil, pen and ink drawing on paper, 19 × 17.5/17.9 cm (Copenhagen, Denmark: Thorvaldsen Museum).

See also

• 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

• 1.29-1.34 Anacreon (Homosexuality in Greece and Rome - UT College of Liberal Arts)
• PURSUIT AND FLIGHT BY SIR KENNETH DOVER (Greek Love Through the Ages)
• DID THE GREEKS PEDICATE THEIR LOVED BOYS? (Greek Love Through the Ages)