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[[File:Hercules at the cross-roads, he is seated at the right, to the left are female personifications of Virtue and Vice MET DP832651.png|thumb|center|[[Heracles (mythology)|Hercules]] at the cross-roads, he is seated at the right, to the left are female personifications of Virtue and Vice (c. 1547–1587). Engraving by Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori after a drawing by Giulio Romano. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.136.306.]]


From <i>[[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[Homosexuality]]</i> by K. J. Dover (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989). First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. in England in 1978. Footnote omitted.

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Xen. <i>Mem</i>. ii 1.21-33 presents a version of a famous allegorical composition in which Prodikos represented Virtue and Vice as offering Herakles a choice between two ways of life. In 1.24 Vice says:

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You will give no thought to war and action, but will pass your time considering what agreeable food or drink you can find, or what sight or sound would give you delight, or what smell or touch, and what [[Paidika (dictionary)|paidika]]’s company would make you happy.
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[[File:Cameo. Hercules bound by Amor.png|thumb|center|Hercules bound by [[Eros (mythology)|Amor]]. Cameo. [[Ancient Rome|Roman]], Republican, 3rd quarter of the 1st century BC. Carnelian, dark orange. Viena, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, IXb 656.]]

==See also==
*[[Symposium (Xenophon)]]
*[[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==
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/greek-practices/pursuit-and-flight-by-sir-kenneth-dover <i>PURSUIT AND FLIGHT</i> BY SIR KENNETH DOVER (Greek Love Through the Ages)]
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/greek-practices/greeks-pedicate-loved-boys-pederasty DID THE GREEKS PEDICATE THEIR LOVED BOYS? (Greek Love Through the Ages)]

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