Look I know academics saying embarrassing things about "eros" or "erotics" in public is easy to dunk on and there's a time honored tradition of doing so But you all know that it makes you look ignorant, right, and not just of PoMo 20th century "queer theory" shit
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In fact that's why there's so much disagreement over the most controversial "eros" in Greek culture, eros paidikos (pederasty, or "boy love") Yes, they declared a man's love for an boy he "mentored" was the highest form of love No, it's not clear this meant actual child rape
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Notably, because they themselves made crude jokes about it Athenians and Spartans regularly accused each other of raping boys and making something foul of something beautiful
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Probably because there was in fact a lot of abuse going on and both sides were being hypocrites But there is quite a bit of literary stuff about the duty of an erastes not to do anything "shameful" with an eromenos, leaving unspoken what exactly their culture found shameful
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INFO: I thought eros was sex love and agape was non-sex love? (disclaimer I know nothing about Greek or classic. This is based entirely on being raised Catholic and the pope had a whole thing about the importance of agape once)
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No, not really In actual ancient Greece they were just two words for "love", with "agape" more commonly used in the context of family love and "eros" in the context of what we'd call romance
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Socrates (via Plato) said a philosopher should be more like an erosopher - their love for wisdom should be erotic, not just friendly ...so yeah of course it's not just sex, not even Socrates figured out how to bang ideas
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