Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has
been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization.
However, the Greeks never invaded and colonised western and
northern Europe the way the Romans did, and, conversely, Greece was
a difficult place to reach for modern travellers well into the
nineteenth century. Inevitably, therefore, the links with ancient
Greece were a product of the imagination: an exemplary
civilization, in its politics, arts, and culture. There was one
problem, however: the Greeks, it seemed, enjoyed pederastic
relations. And not only this: one of Athens' most famous teachers,
Socrates, was attracted to boys. Daniel Orrells offers a fresh,
original examination of how modern thinkers in Germany and Britain,
who were so invested in a model of history that directly traced the
European present back to an ancient Greek past, negotiated the
tricky issue of ancient Greek pederasty.
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