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ulgar. The mixed sort is the paiderastia defined as Greek love in this essay. VII. The intensity of paiderastia as an emotion, and its quality. VIII. Myths of paiderastia. IX. Semi-legendary tales of love--Harmodius and Aristogeiton. X. Dorian Customs--Sparta and Crete--Conditions of Dorian life--Moral quality of Dorian love--Its final degeneracy--Speculations on the early Dorian _Ethos_--Boeotians' customs--The sacred band--Alexander the Great--Customs of Elis and Megara--_Hybris_--Ionia. XI. Paiderastia in poetry of the lyric age. Theognis and Kurnus--Solon--Ibycus, the male Sappho--Anacreon and Smerdies--Drinking songs--Pindar and Theoxenos--Pindar's lofty conception of adolescent beauty. XII. Paiderastia upon the Attic stage--_Myrmidones_ of AEschylus--_Achilles' lovers_, and _Niobe_ of Sophocles--The _Chrysippus_ of Euripides--Stories about Sophocles--Illustrious Greek paiderasts. XIII. Recapitulation of points--Quotation from the speech of Pausanias on love in Plato's _Symposium_--Observations on this speech. Position of women at Athens--Attic notion of marriage as a duty--The institution of _Paidagogoi_--Life of a Greek boy--Aristophanes' _Clouds_--Lucian's _Amores_--The Palaestra--The _Lysis_--The _Charmides_--Autolicus in Xenophon's _Symposium_--Speech of Critobulus on beauty and love--Importance of gymnasia in relation to paiderastia--Statues of Eros--Cicero's opinions--Laws concerning the gymnasia--Graffiti on walls--Love-poems and panegyrics--Presents to boys--Shops and _mauvais lieux_--Paiderastic _Hetaireia_--Brothels--Phaedon and Agathocles. Street-brawls about boys--_Lysias in Simonem_. XIV. Distinctions drawn by Attic law and custom--_Chrestoi Pornoi_--Presents and money--Atimia of freemen who had sold their bodies--The definition of _Misthosis_--_Eromenos_, _Hetairekos_, _Peporneumenos_, distinguished--_AEschines against Timarchus_--General Conclusion as to Attic feeling about honourable paiderastia. XV. Platonic doctrine on Greek love--The asceticism of the _Laws_--Socrates--His position defined by Maximus Tyrius--His science of erotics--The theory of the _Phaedrus_: erotic _Mania_--The mysticism of the _Symposium_: love of beauty--Points of contact between Platonic paiderastia and chivalrous love: _Mania_ and Joie: Dante's _Vita Nuova_--Platonist and Petrarchist--Gibbon on the "thin device" of the Athenian philosophers--Testimony of Lucian, Plutarch, Cicero. XVI. Greek liberty a
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