slave? Homoeroticism was seen by many Greeks in the Classical Era (500–336 BCE)—for example, the Athenian gentry of Plato's and Aristotle's day—as a more exalted form of sexual activity. In Phaedrus, for instance, Plato tells us that many Greek men went bankrupt in trying to win the affection of a handsome young man.52 The early speeches of Plato's Symposium are straightforward paeans to male homoeroticism.
