Eromenos

Erastes (lover) and eromenos (beloved) kissing. Tondo of an Attic red-figured cup, ca. 480 BCE. Louvre Museum

In ancient Greece, an eromenos was the younger partner in a formalized relationship of mentorship and love between an older man (the erastes) and an adolescent male.

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