Perjantanan di Yunani Kuno: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Perjantanan di Yunani kuno''' adalah hubungan sosial yang diakui antara orang dewasa dan seorang laki-laki yang lebih muda biasanya yang masih di usia remaja.<ref>C.D.C. Reeve, ''Plato on Love:'' Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades ''with Selections from'' Republic'' and'' Laws (Hackett, 2006), p. xxi [http://books.google.com/books?id=E1lQNf2EfEUC&pg=PP25&dq=paiderastia&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=50&as_brr=3&cd=30#v=onepage&q=paiderastia&f=false online]; Martti Nissinen, ''Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective'', translated by Kirsi Stjerna (Augsburg Fortress, 1998, 2004), p. 57 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-sHSNPG85tUC&pg=PA57&dq=%22It+is+common+knowledge+that+a+particular+form+of+homoerotic+relations%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20common%20knowledge%20that%20a%20particular%20form%20of%20homoerotic%20relations%22&f=false online]; Nigel Blake ''et al.'', ''Education in an Age of Nihilism'' (Routledge, 2000), p. 183 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lgkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=paiderastia&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=50&as_brr=3&cd=27#v=onepage&q=paiderastia&f=false online.]</ref> Ini adalah karakteristik dari [[Yunani kuno|Kuno]] dan [[Yunani klasik|periode Klasik]].<ref>Nissinen, ''Homoeroticism in the Biblical World'', p. 57; William Armstrong Percy III, "Reconsiderations about Greek Homosexualities," in ''Same–Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West'' (Binghamton: Haworth, 2005), p. 17. Sexual variety, not excluding ''paiderastia'', was characteristic of the [[Hellenistic era]]; see [[Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green]], "Sex and Classical Literature," in ''Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient Culture and History'' (University of California Press, 1989, 1998), p. 146 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zlFXc9N19yUC&pg=PA146&dq=%22Heterosexual+activities+did+not+supplant+paiderastia%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22Heterosexual%20activities%20did%20not%20supplant%20paiderastia%22&f=false online.]</ref> Beberapa ahli menemukan asal-usulnya dalam [[ritual inisiasi]], terutama ritus peralihan di [[Kreta]], di mana dikaitkan dengan pintu masuk ke dalam kehidupan militer dan agama [[Zeus]].