A Problem in Greek Ethics / Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists

by John Addington Symonds

[78] Ibid., vol. i. p. 327.

[79] Athen., xiii. 601 A.

[80] See the fragments of the Myrmidones in the Poetæ Scenici Græci, My interpretation of them is, of course, conjectural.

[81] Lucian, Amores; Plutarch, Eroticus; Athenæus, xiii. 602 E.

[82] Possibly Æschylus drew his fable from a non-Homeric source, but if so, it is curious that Plato should only refer to Homer.

[83] Symph., 180 A. Xenophon, Symph., 8, 31, points out that in Homer Achilles avenged the death of Patroclus, not as his lover, but as his comrade in arms.

[84] Cf. Eurid., Hippol., l. 525; Plato, Phœdr., p. 255; Max. Tyr., Dissert., xxv. 2.

[85] See Poetæ Scenici, Fragments of Sophocles.

[86] Eroticus; p. 790 E.

[87] Ath., p. 602 E.