In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamītus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of an older male, usually in a pederastic...

name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word catamite is derived. Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire"...

Bithynia (c. 169 BC – c. 100 BC), Greek physician Antinous (2nd century), Catamite and eromenos of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Cassius Dio (c. 155 - c. 235)...

and the last by the related construction bishōnen ("beautiful boy"). Catamite Greek love History of human sexuality Homoeroticism Homosexuality in ancient...

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Glory Cabin Boy, a 1994 fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick A catamite or paramour employed in a menial capacity as pretense This disambiguation...

stages in their lives. But, he notes, if Hephaestion was Alexander's "catamite", the stigma attached to being the passive sexual partner is not something...

2022. Retrieved January 28, 2023. Nugent, Mark (2008). "From 'Filthy Catamite' to 'Queer Icon': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960–1975)"...

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however, could take the active role with a young male slave, known as a catamite or puer delicatus. The latter was allowed because anal intercourse was...