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[[File:Johann Rudolf Koller - Naked Young Boy Laying Outdoors.png|thumb|center|<i>Naked Young Boy Laying Outdoors</i> (1858) by Johann Rudolf Koller. Oil on canvas, 92.5 × 75.5 cm.]]


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

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[[Eros (mythology)|Love]], the murderer of men, moulded soft as marrow the back-side of Sosarchus of Amphipolis in fun, wishing to irritate [[Zeus (mythology)|Zeus]] because his thighs are much more honeyed than those of [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]].
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[[File:EUCHARIDES PAINTER -485c Ganymede pouring Zeus a libation (MET L.1999.10.14) 1214x1252.jpg|thumb|center|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==
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/ancient-texts/the-boyish-muse/dioskourides THE POEMS OF DIOSKOURIDES (Greek Love Through the Ages)]
*[https://greek-love.com/antiquity/ancient-texts/the-boyish-muse/straton THE EPIGRAMS OF STRATON OF SARDIS (Greek Love Through the Ages)]
*[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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