Studies in Sexual Inversion Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics
John Addington Symonds
Studies in Sexual Inversion Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics
John Addington Symonds
- Homosexuality and pederasty in Greece and the modern age, an ethical reconsideration. Part one, a problem in Greek ethics, contains, among other chapters, Homer had no knowledge of pederasty - Achilles - treatment of Homer by the later Greeks; Romance of Achilles and Partroclus; Heroic ideal of masculine love; Vulgar pederasty - how introduced into Hellas - Crete - Laius - myth of Ganymede. Part two, a problem in modern ethics, contains, among other chapters, Christian opinion from the Age of Justinian; Vulgar errors; Literature: idealistic - Walt Whitman; Suggestions upon legislation.
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