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*In [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens's]] ''The Demi-Gods'' (1914), in "The Threepenny Piece", Rhadamanthus (portrayed as an immense *In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''[[Fallen Gods]]'' (2003) by [[Jonathan Blum]] and [[Kate Orman]], Rhadamanthus (spelled R ...

<center>Gods of the Great Shrine also ordain bonds of [[Shudō|boy love]].</center> ...oth pen and sword. Everyone who saw him fell immediately in love. When the gods assembled at the Great Shrine, this boy was the main topic of conversation. ...

...iod, Acusilaus and Parmenides for the claim that Eros is the oldest of the gods. He confers great benefits, inspiring a lover to earn the admiration of his ...ness - and sacrificing one's self for love will result in rewards from the gods. ...

...sed the death of the boy '''Actaeon''' , son of Melissus, with whom he had fallen in love and who had rejected his advances. Gathering his servants, he storm ...to have sacrificed themselves to purify [[Athens]] of a plague sent by the gods during the 44th olympiad (604-601). The Cretan sage [[Epimenides]] had been ...

...the cupbearer of the immortals. The sensual desire which made the king of gods and men prefer Ganymede to Leda, Io, Danaë, and all the maidens whom he lov ...des, of Talos and Rhadamanthus, of Damon and Pythias. Nearly all the Greek gods, except, I think, oddly enough, Ares, were famous for their love. Poseidon, ...

...eld to have sacrificed themselves to purify Athens of a plague sent by the gods during the 44th olympiad (604-601). The Cretan sage Epimenides had been inv ...chesilaus, who visited them in company with Theophrastus, spoke of them as gods, or survivors from the Golden Age.<ref>"Iolaus, An Anthology: II. The Place ...

::Michelangelo is thought by some to have fallen in love<ref>"...sono ben noti alcuni suoi affetti omosessuali per Cecchino The handsome Trojan cupbearer who pours for the gods" <ref>Antiquitez de Rome By Joachim Du Bellay, Richard Helgerson; p154-5</r ...

...s and the Hyphasis (Satadru or Sutledge):- “These holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their wal The Æsopic fable, carried by the Hellenes to India, might have fallen in with some rude and fantastic barbarian of Buddhistic "persuasion" and in ...

practices were so ancient that they were attributed to the gods Horus and think me curiously cold, and often wonder why I have never fallen ...