Images of Pederasty by Andrew Lear & Eva Cantarella

Author:Andrew Lear & Eva Cantarella [Lear, Andrew & Cantarella, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Greece, Social Science, Gay Studies
ISBN: 9780415223676
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 3.20 Kylix in the style of Douris. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlruhe Inv. 70/ 395. Photo: Museum.

Aeschines 1.135), and in one of them, Lysias 3 (Against Simon), we hear of violent fights over a slave-boy. It seems not unlikely that something of that kind is represented here, although it is not clear whether the man on the slave's left is fighting to take him for himself or trying to protect him. In any case, even in this extreme case, the worst indignity the slave suffers at the symposiasts' hands (in paint) is to be dragged away, and he suffers none at the painter's hands, who renders him as an athletic youth (with a hair style reminiscent of the youths in black-figure vases such as vase 0.2): he is, in contrast to the hetaira of vase 3.10, neither debased nor base.

In the two more obviously erotic scenes of which we know involving slave-boys, the boys are also portrayed as muscular and self-restrained, very much in the manner of respectable eromenoi. Although neither of them is courted, neither of them is treated with any form of sexual force. This is clearer in the first scene, on vase 3.21 (New York 07.286.47), because sexual contact is explicitly represented. Here we see a bearded symposiast on a couch, surrounded by a team of slave-boys and hetairai. His sexual interest is directed not to one of the latter, but to one of the former, who is adjusting his wreath. While he does so, the symposiast takes advantage of his position to caress his penis. Several things separate this from a respectable courtship scene: in red-figure, an eromenos would probably be at least partly clothed, and whether in red- or black-figure, he would receive a gift before allowing access to his genitalia. However, the slave-boy's muscles are carefully delineated, and his penis is small and non-erect. Furthermore, the symposiast does not feel free

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