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Studies in Sexual Inversion: Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics

Author John Addington Symonds
Publisher Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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ISBN / ASIN0766135195
ISBN-139780766135192
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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.