“eromenos”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

eromenos

释义

‖ eromenos, n.|ɛˈrəʊmɛnɒs|
[Gr. ἐρώµενος, masc. pass. pple. of ἐρᾶν to be in love with.]
In ancient Greece, a younger man who is desired and pursued by an older man; a man desired by an erastes.
[1932: see *erastes n.]1970Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. CI. 274 Ordinarily the older man, the lover (erastes), pursues the younger, the beloved (erômenos) and tries to seduce him. Here in a reversal of the usual roles Alcibiades becomes the erastes and Socrates the erômenos.1978K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality i. 16 The pais in a homosexual relationship was often a youth who had attained full height..; in order to avoid cumbrousness and at the same time to avoid the imprecision of ‘boy’, I have consistently adopted the Greek term erōmenos.1983Gay Reporter 2 June 23/2, I am too naturally bolshy to be anyone's amanuensis, eromenos, concubine or plaything.1990[see *erastes n.].

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