有許多關於“古希臘少年愛”的引用來自古希臘墨伽拉的詩人特奧格拉斯(Theognis of Megara)為基爾羅斯所撰寫作品。特奧格拉斯的部分作品可能並不是他個人在墨伽拉所創作,而是代表了“幾代人智慧的累積”。這些詩歌反映的是“在特奧格拉斯的自我想像中,將有關社會、政治和道德戒律教導給基爾羅斯是他作為一個墨伽拉成年人應盡的義務”。[60]
特奧格拉斯和基爾羅斯之間的關係脫離了一般分類。雖然基爾羅斯是特奧格拉斯想像出來的一位“被愛者”,但是這些詩歌無疑都是非常明顯地向“被愛者”求愛的挑逗情詩。他的一首描寫少年愛的詩歌,《悲歡離合》(The Joys and Sorrows)[61] 很好地描述了很多“愛者”的心態,“情可追憶,唯留惘然”(the relationship, in any case, is left vague)。[62]
這種關係的性質在當時也是有爭議的。色诺芬在他的作品《斯巴達憲法》(Constitution of the Lacedaimonians)中強調斯巴達男人和男孩之間的關係應該只是純潔的“理想上志同道合的朋友關係”,而不應該包括性行為。如果他們之間僅僅存在性吸引,那麼這種關係與亂倫一樣可憎。[71]普魯塔克則指出,當斯巴達男孩到了青春期時,就可以和年長的男性發生性關係。[72] 學者伊良(Aelian)也有部分著作涉及斯巴達,他指出一個人如果沒有年輕的“被愛者”,那麼就會被視為有性格上的缺陷。即便他是優秀的,但還是會被認為有一處沒有做好。[73] 但是伊良同時也指出,如果“愛者”和“被愛者”沉迷肉欲則會被視為對斯巴達榮譽的侮辱,那麼他們將不得不面臨選擇,要麼被流放,要麼以流血犧牲來贖罪懺悔。[74]
直到19世紀末,現代的學者們才開始探討古代希臘社會,例如:雅典、底比斯、克里特島、斯巴達、厄利斯及其他地區的道德觀。在首批提出探討的學者中,約翰·阿丁頓·西蒙茲(John Addington Symonds)做出了開創性的貢獻,他在1873年寫出了《一個有關古希臘倫理的問題》(A Problem in Greek Ethics)一書。由於作者本人的版權要求,這本書在1883年僅僅小範圍地發行了10本。直到1901年,這本著作才以修訂的形式正式出版。[82] 愛德華·卡朋特(Edward Carpenter)擴大了西蒙茲的研究對象,在他1914年出版的著作《原始民族的中間形態》(Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk)中,他研究探討了全球所有文化中的同性戀風俗,而不僅僅是古希臘少年愛。[83] 在德國,古典希臘研究學者保羅·勃蘭特(Paul Brandt)化名漢斯·李希特(Hans Licht)在1932年出版了《古希臘時代的性生活》(Sexual Life in Ancient Greece)一書。
^J.D. Beazley, "Some Attic Vases in the Cyprus Museum", Proceedings of the British Academy 33 (1947); p.199; Dover, Greek Homosexuality, pp. 94-96.
^C.D.C. Reeve, Plato on Love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades with Selections from Republic and Laws (Hackett, 2006), p. xxi online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Martti Nissinen, Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective, translated by Kirsi Stjerna (Augsburg Fortress, 1998, 2004), p. 57 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Nigel Blake et al., Education in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2000), p. 183 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Nissinen, Homoeroticism in the Biblical World, p. 57; William Armstrong Percy III, "Reconsiderations about Greek Homosexualities," in Same–Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West (Binghamton: Haworth, 2005), p. 17. Sexual variety, not excluding paiderastia, was characteristic of the Hellenistic era; see Peter Green, "Sex and Classical Literature," in Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient Culture and History (University of California Press, 1989, 1998), p. 146 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Robert B. Koehl, "The Chieftain Cup and a Minoan Rite of Passage," Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986) 99–110, with a survey of the relevant scholarship including that of Arthur Evans (p. 100) and others such as H. Jeanmaire and R.F. Willetts (pp. 104–105); Deborah Kamen, "The Life Cycle in Archaic Greece," in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 91–92. Kenneth Dover, a pioneer in the study of Greek homosexuality, rejects the initiation theory of origin; see "Greek Homosexuality and Initiation," in Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology (Continuum, 1997), pp. 19–38. For Dover, it seems, the argument that Greek paiderastia as a social custom was related to rites of passage constitutes a denial of homosexuality as natural or innate; this may be to overstate or misrepresent what the initiatory theorists have said. The initiatory theory does not claim to account for the existence of homosexuality, but for formal paiderastia.
^For examples, see Kenneth Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Harvard University Press, 1978, 1898), p. 165, note 18, where the eschatological value of paiderastia for the soul in Plato is noted; Paul Gilabert Barberà, "John Addington Symonds. A Problem in Greek Ethics. Plutarch's Eroticus Quoted Only in Some Footnotes? Why?" in The Statesman in Plutarch's Works (Brill, 2004), p. 303 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); and the pioneering view of Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1921, 3rd ed.), vol. 2, p. 12 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) For Stoic "utopian" views of paiderastia, see Doyne Dawson, Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought (Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 192 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Thomas Hubbard, "Pindar's Tenth Olympian and Athlete-Trainer Pederasty," in Same–Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity, pp. 143 and 163 (note 37), with cautions about the term "homosocial" from Percy, p. 49, note 5.
^Percy, "Reconsiderations about Greek Homosexualities," p. 17 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) et passim.
^Dawson, Cities of the Gods, p. 193. See also George Boys-Stones, "Eros in Government: Zeno and the Virtuous City," Classical Quarterly 48 (1998), 168–174: "there is a certain kind of sexual relationship which was considered by many Greeks to be very important for the cohesion of the city: sexual relations between men and youths. Such relationships were taken to play such an important role in fostering cohesion where it mattered — among the male population — that Lycurgus even gave them official recognition in his constitution for Sparta" (p. 169).
^Michael Lambert, "Athens," in Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Taylor & Francis, 2000), p. 122.
^See Osborne following. Gloria Ferrari, however, notes that there were conventions of age pertaining to sexual activity, and if a man violated these by seducing a boy who was too young to consent to becoming an eromenos, the predator might be subject to prosecution under the law of hubris; Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (University of Chicago Press, 2002), pp. 139–140.
^Robin Osborne, Greek History (Routledge, 2004), pp. 12 online and 21.
^Etymologies (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) in American Heritage Dictionary, Random House Dictionary, and Online Etymology Dictionary
^The pair of terms are used both within and outside the field of classical studies. For surveys and reference works within the study of ancient culture and history, see for instance The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture, a publication of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 2003), pp. 149–150 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); John Grimes Younger, Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z pp. 91–92 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Outside classical studies, see for instance Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment (University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 50–51 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey, Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (Columbia University Press, 2002), pp. 168–169 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Michael R. Kauth, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction (Springer, 2000), p. 87 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Roberto Haran, Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (2004), p. 165ff. online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Kenneth Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Harvard University Press, 1978, 1989), p. 16.
^Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, p. 1286.
^William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece (University of Illinois Press, 1996), p. 1 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Martha Nussbaum, "Platonic Love and Colorado Law: The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to Modern Sexual Controversies," Sex and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 309: "because the popular thought of our day tends to focus on the scare image of a 'dirty old man' hanging around outside the school waiting to molest young boys, it is important to mention, as well, that the erastês might not be very far in age from the erômenos."
^Marguerite Johnson and Terry Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2005), p. 4 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^It is uncertain whether the pais Kleis is Sappho's actual daughter, or whether the word is affectionate. Anne L. Klinck, "'Sleeping in the Bosom of a Tender Companion': Homoerotic Attachments in Sappho," in Same-sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West (Haworth Press, 2005), p. 202 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Jane McIntosh Snyder, The Woman and the Lyre (Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), p. 3 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The word pais can also be used of a bride; see Johnson and Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society, p. 80, note 4.
^"We can conclude that the erômenos is generally old enough for mature military and political action": Nussbaum, "Platonic Love and Colorado Law," p. 309 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^See especially Mark Golden, endnote to "Slavery and Homosexuality at Athens: Age Differences between erastai and eromenoi," in Homosexuality in the Ancient World (Taylor & Francis, 1992) pp. 175–176 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); also Johnson and Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Culture, p. 3; Barry S. Strauss, Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (Routledge, 1993), p. 30 online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Martha Nussbaum, "Eros and the Wise: The Stoic Response to a Cultural Dilemma," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 13 (1995, 2001), p. 230 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Nuances of age also discussed by Ferrari, Figures of Speech, pp. 131–132 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Dover, Greek Homosexuality, pp. 16 and 85; Ferrari, Figures of Speech, p. 135.
^Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, p. 61, considers the kouroi to be examples of pederastic art. "The particular attributes that kouroi display match those of such 'beloveds' in the visual and literary sources from the late archaic to the classical age": Deborah Tam Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 215 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The presence of facial and pubic hair on some kouroi disassociates them with the erômenos if the latter is taken only as a boy who has not entered adolescence; thus Jeffrey M. Hurwit, "The Human Figure in Early Greek Sculpture and Vase-Painting," in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 275 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: (Cambridge University Press, 1986, 2001), p. 188 online.
^Dover, "Greek Homosexuality and Initiation," pp. 19–20, notes the usage of "the same words for homosexual as for heterosexual emotion … and the same for its physical consummation" from the archaic period on.
^The main source for this rite of initiation is Strabo 10.483–484, quoting Ephoros; the summary given here is the construction of Robert B. Koehl, "The Chieftain Cup and a Minoan Rite of Passage," Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986), pp. 105–107.
^John Pollini, "The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver," Art Bulletin 81.1 (1999) 21–52.
^Blake et al., Education in an Age of Nihilism, p. 183.
^Gregory Nagy(英语:Gregory Nagy), "Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticis: Classical Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1989, 1997), p. 40 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Johnston, Sarah Iles. Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. pg. 446; see also Cocca, Carolyn. Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. pg. 4
^The term here rendered as "ideal" is καλοκἀγαθίᾳ, translated as "a perfect man, a man as he should be" in Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford, 1968; p.397)
^Deborah Kamen, "The Life Cycle in Archaic Greece," in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 91 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Beazley as summarized by Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, p. 119.
^Judith M. Barringer, The Hunt in Ancient Greece (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), pp. 70–72 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, p. 188; see also Dover, Greek Homosexuality, p. 96; Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, p. 119.
^Thomas Hubbard, review of David Halperin's How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 22 September 2003 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Ferrari, Figures of Speech, p. 140; Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, pp. 119–120.
^For examples, see Johnson and Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society, p. 116, note 4, quoting a fragment from Solon: "a man falls in love with a youth in the full-flower of boy-love / possessed of desire-enhancing thighs and a honey-sweet mouth"; Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, p. 450, note 48, quoting a fragment of the lost Myrmidons of Aeschylus in which Achilles mourns the dead Patroclus, their "many kisses," and the "god-fearing converse with your thighs."
^Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, p. 119; Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, pp. 268, 307, 335; Ferrari, Figures of Speech, p. 145.
^Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Ancient Greece, p. 119.
^Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, pp. 268, 335; Ferrari, Figures of Speech, p. 145.
^Aesop, "Zeus and Shame" (Perry 109, Chambry 118, Gibbs 528), in Fables.
^Johnson and Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature, p. 3, based on Attic red-figure pottery; Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Ancient Greece, p. 119.
^Theognidean corpus 1345–50, as cited by Kamen, "The Life Cycle in Archaic Greece," p. 91. Although the speaker is identified here conventionally as Theognis, certain portions of the work attributed to him may not be by the Megaran poet.
^Dover, "Greek Homosexuality and Initiation,"passim, especially pp. 19–20, 22–23.
^Percy, William A. Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, pp146-150
^Thomas F. Scanlon, "The Dispersion of Pederasty and the Athletic Revolution in Sixth-Century BC Greece," in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, pp. 64-70.
^Erich Bethe,Die Dorische Knabenliebe: ihre Ethik und ihre Ideen, 1907, 441, 444
^Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists, XIII: Concerning Women
^色诺芬, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, 2.13 : "The customs instituted by Lycurgus were opposed to all of these. If someone, being himself an honest man, admired a boy's soul and tried to make of him an ideal friend without reproach and to associate with him, he approved, and believed in the excellence of this kind of training. But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward beauty, he banned the connexion as an abomination; and thus he caused lovers to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each other." online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus, 17.1: "When the boys reached this age, they were favoured with the society of lovers from among the reputable young men. The elderly men also kept close watch of them, coming more frequently to their places of exercises, and observing their contests of strength and wit, not cursorily, but with the idea that they were all in a sense the fathers and tutors and governors of all the boys. In this way, at every fitting time and in every place, the boy who went wrong had someone to admonish and chastise him."
^Rommel Mendès-Leite et al. Gay Studies from the French Cultures p.157; Percy, "Reconsiderations about Greek Homosexualities," pp. 30-31.
^Percy, "Reconsiderations about Greek Homosexualities," p. 54.
^Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas, 19.1: "Speaking generally, however, it was not the passion of Laius that, as the poets say, first made this form of love customary among the Thebans; but their law-givers, wishing to relax and mollify their strong and impetuous natures in earliest boyhood, gave the flute great prominence both in their work and in their play, bringing this instrument into preeminence and honour, and reared them to give love a conspicuous place in the life of the palaestra, thus tempering the dispositions of the young men."
^Charles Hupperts, "Boeotian Swine: Homosexuality in Boeotia" in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity, p. 190 online. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)