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

[128] Lysias, according to Suidas, was the author of five erotic epistles adressed to young men.

[129] See Aristoph., Plutus, 153-159; Birds, 704-707. Cp. Mousa Paidiké, 44, 239, 237. The boys made extraordinary demands upon their lovers' generosity. The curious tale told about Alcibiades points in this direction. In Crete they did the like, but also set their lovers to execute difficult tasks, as Eurystheus imposed the twelve labours on Herakles.

[130] Page 29.

[131] Mousa Paidiké, 8: cp. a fragment of Crates, Poetæ Comici, Didot, p. 83.

[132] Comici Græci, Didot, pp. 562, 31, 308.

[133] It is curious to compare the passage in the second Philippic about the youth of Mark Antony with the story told by Plutarch about Alcibiades, who left the custody of his guardians for the house of Democrates.

[134] See both Lysias against Simon and Æschines against Timarchus.

[135] Peace, line 11; compare the word Pallakion in Plato, Comici Græci, p. 261.

[136] Diog. Laert., ii. 105.

[137] Plato's Phædo, p. 89.