[LCC] Greek Erotics in Athens

[Kirk Ormand]

Curiously,  the news story leaves out the last couplet of GA 12.4,  
which plays on a common Homeric formula:

εἰ δ᾿ ἐπὶ πρεσβυτέρους τις ἔχει  
πόθον, οὐκέτι παίζει
	ἀλλ᾿ ἤδη ζητεῖ τὸν δ᾿  
ἀπαμειβόμενος.

"But if someone has desire for those who are older, he is no longer  
playing,
	but already he seeks [one] "answering him in return".

Kirk Ormand


On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Terrence Lockyer wrote:

> The Guardian covers an exhibition in Athens focussed on Greek
> representations of Eros, love, and sexuality.  The main article
> is at
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/09/museums-greece
>
> with a brief gallery of ten images at
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/10/sex-eros- 
> exhibition-athens
>
> By the way, for those who may not immediately recognize it, the
> unnamed "scribe" (a curious term in this context) who "declares"
> his age-specific interests "in a text highlighted on a wall" is
> the Greek epigrammatist Straton or in Latin form Strato of
> Sardis, at Anthologia Palatina (a. k. a. "Greek Anthology") 12.4.
>
>
> Terrence Lockyer
> Johannesburg, South Africa
> e-mail:  lockyert [at] mweb.co.za
>
>
>
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