(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - Youthful Male Thighs and Buttocks as Pederastically Eroticized Body Parts in a Poem by Dioscorides

Naked Young Boy Laying Outdoors (1858) by Johann Rudolf Koller. Oil on canvas, 92.5 × 75.5 cm.

From The Boyish Muse (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσα Παιδική Mousa Paidike; Latin: Musa Puerilis [2nd Century AD]), compiled by Strato, in Book 12 of The Greek Anthology (Latin: Anthologia Graeca, 10th–14th Century), Volume 4, translated by W. R. Paton, Loeb Classical Library (London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1918).

37.—DIOSCORIDES

Love, the murderer of men, moulded soft as marrow the back-side of Sosarchus of Amphipolis in fun, wishing to irritate Zeus because his thighs are much more honeyed than those of Ganymede.

Ganymede pouring Zeus a libation. Attic red-figure calyx-krater by the Eucharides Painter, c. 490–480 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, L.1999.10.14.

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 POEMS OF DIOSKOURIDES (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)