erastes
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).
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erastes (plural erastai)
- (historical) An adult man in Ancient Greece who courted or was in a pederastic relationship with an adolescent boy.
- Coordinate term: eromenos
- 2002, Stephen O Murray, Pacific Homosexualities, iUniverse, page 80:
- In regard to the boys (erōmenos) involved in ancient Greek pederasty, Dover (1978:52) asked: “What does the eromenos get out of submission to his erastēs?”
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