Citations:philerastic


 * ante 1988: Paul Cartledge, Politics of Spartan Pederasty, page 21 (reprinted and quoted many times elsewhere:,  ,  ,  )
 * [Plutarch describes how] competition for the exclusive love of a particular boy did not exist in Sparta. To the contrary, those who conceived eros for the same boy regarded this as an occasion for starting mutual friendships and would thenceforth strive tirelessly and in common to improve their shared eromenos to the utmost. [¶] It would not, I think, be unreasonable to doubt this uplifting vision of philerastic co-operation, especially as Plutarch himself elsewhere insists, rightly, on portraying Sparta as a society shot through with officially sponsored competitiveness at all levels. It is hard to see why in practice pederasty should have been an exception to this rule, however desirable that might be in theory.
 * 2002: Angela L. Pitts, Prostitute, muse, lover: the biographical tradition of Sappho in Greek and Roman literature, page 204 (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
 * This is even more so the case in Aristophanes’ story because he places the origin of sexual desire in mythic time, and the whole structure of the story (the three original sexes, their separation, which half of the original sex seeks the other) is constructed so as to idealize male pederastic and philerastic love (pace Oscar Wilde).
 * 2005: Thomas H. Luxon, Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage, and Friendship, pages 187 {1} and 188 {2} (Duquesne University Press; ISBN 0820703737, 9780820703732)
 * {1} Satan’s qualifications as philerastic partner to the Son of God appear poor in other regards as well. Even as he offers himself as a submissive pupil, eager to hear truth’s dictates from his master, the Son, and eager even to endure reproof, Satan implies that he will not embrace those dictates, will not follow truth, and despairs from the outset of ever attaining virtue. He openly admits that he has no desire to become wise and good or to acquire an education in virtue; according to Pausanias’s doctrine, then, he is as unfit to be the Son’s beloved as he was for the Father.
 * {2} By offering himself to the Son in the role of a philerastic darling Satan is made to appear doubly shameful