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greek-customsfeatured in 3 works

Pederastic Mentorship

An institutionalized Greek bond between an adult man (erastes) and an adolescent youth (eromenos) combining erotic, educational, and civic-formative roles.

How it traveled

  1. Symposium
    Athens · -354
    explains
  2. Constitution of the Lacedaimonians
    Athens · -354
    explains
  3. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
    explains

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Constitution of the Lacedaimonians · Xenophon

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Constitution of the Lacedaimonians · Xenophon

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Symposium · Xenophon

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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