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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 601: Songs about boys
Myrtilus has been quoting poets in love with women, ending with Alcman's lines on Megalostrata. Now he turns to poets who loved boys. Stesichorus was a lyric poet of the 6th century BC.
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- 601a Songs about boys. …and he speaks of her like this: “This gift of the sweet Muses has…
- 601b The boy-lover play. …the loves: the one, that of Achilles for Patroclus; the other, in his Niobe,…
- 601c In due season. …the Thracian north wind, rushing from Cypris with parching madness, dark and fearless, keeps…
- 601d Theoxenus. “when he ought to be setting, now he begins to take his pleasure.” And…
- 601e Melting like wax. …serving her. But I, because of her, melt like the wax of holy bees…
- 601f Who carried off Ganymede. …says that it was not Zeus who carried off Ganymede, but Minos. But the…
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