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6/22/2025, 12:51:40 PM
>>17782903
He means it's a common excess in an allegorical sense. The Greeks would often use allegory to portray utopian or dystopian societies, such as Atlantis, which they would compare themselves to. Sometimes this allegory can be subtle, and if you don't read carefully, you might mistake it for a description of their own society. In a hypothetical dystopian society, a sexual form of pederasty would be rampant, which the Greeks, virtuous as they were, were expressly opposed to, and the author of the text you posted concurs. The form of pederasty which the Greeks practiced was non-sexual. This form of pederasty, the non-sexual love of boys, is what was rampant.
He means it's a common excess in an allegorical sense. The Greeks would often use allegory to portray utopian or dystopian societies, such as Atlantis, which they would compare themselves to. Sometimes this allegory can be subtle, and if you don't read carefully, you might mistake it for a description of their own society. In a hypothetical dystopian society, a sexual form of pederasty would be rampant, which the Greeks, virtuous as they were, were expressly opposed to, and the author of the text you posted concurs. The form of pederasty which the Greeks practiced was non-sexual. This form of pederasty, the non-sexual love of boys, is what was rampant.
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