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Project Gutenberg's A Problem in Greek Ethics, by John Addington Symonds This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Author: John Addington Symonds Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32022] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PROBLEM IN GREEK ETHICS *** Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This ebook was produced from scanned images of public domain material at Google Books.) A PROBLEM IN GREEK ETHICS BEING AN INQUIRY INTO THE PHENOMENON OF _SEXUAL INVERSION_ ADDRESSED ESPECIALLY TO MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND JURISTS BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS _PRIVATELY PRINTED_ FOR THE AREOPAGITIGA SOCIETY LONDON 1908 _Privately Printed in Holland for the Society._ PREFACE. The following treatise on Greek Love was written in the year 1873, when my mind was occupied with my _Studies of Greek Poets_. I printed ten copies of it privately in 1883. It was only when I read the Terminal Essay appended by Sir Richard Burton to his translation of the _Arabian Nights_ in 1886, that I became aware of M. H. E. Meier's article on Paederastie (Ersch and Gruber's _Encyclopaedie_, Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1837). My treatise, therefore, is a wholly independent production. This makes Meier's agreement (in Section 7 of his article) with the theory I have set forth in Section X. regarding the North Hellenic origin of Greek Love, and its Dorian character, the more remarkable. That two students, working separately upon the same mass of material, should have arrived at similar conclusions upon this point strongly confirms the probability of the hypothesis. J. A. SYMONDS. CONTENTS. I. INTRODUCTION: Method of treating the subject. II. Homer had no knowledge of paiderastia--Achilles--Treatment of Homer by the later Greeks. III. The Romance of Achilles and Patroclus. IV. The heroic ideal of masculine love. V. Vulgar paiderastia--How introduced into Hellas--Crete--Laius--The myth of Ganymede. VI. Discrimination of two loves, heroic and v
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