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...m Percy]], holds that pederasty was formalized in ancient Crete around 630 BC as a means of population control, together with a delayed age of marriage f ...ought in by the Dorian warrior tribes who conquered [[Greece]] around 1200 BC. They settled most of the [[Peloponnese]] along with the islands Crete, The ...

'''Pederastic courtship scene'''<br> Athenian black-figure amphora, 5th c. BC, Painter of Cambridge; Object currently in the collection of the Staatliche ...f so, by the fifth century the Greeks had forgotten the connection. In 476 BC, the poet [[Pindar]], in his ''Olympian Ode I,'' claims to be horrified by ...

...ous races which profess it, in accordance with the spirit of the age." [FN#332] Hence, I add, its wide diffusion and its impregnable position. "The dead h ...nes who, under Alexander the Great, "liberator and saviour of Egypt" (B.C. 332), extinguished the native dynasties: the love of the Macedonian for Bagoas ...