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CONTENTS.
| I. | Introduction: Method of treating the subject. |
| II. | Homer had no knowledge of paiderastia—Achilles—Treatment of Homer by the later Greeks. |
| III. | The Romance of Achilles and Patroclus. |
| IV. | The heroic ideal of masculine love. |
| V. | Vulgar paiderastia—How introduced into Hellas—Crete—Laius—The myth of Ganymede. |
| VI. | Discrimination of two loves, heroic and vulgar. The mixed sort is the paiderastia defined as Greek love in this essay. |
| VII. | The intensity of paiderastia as an emotion, and its quality. |
| VIII. | Myths of paiderastia. |
| IX. | Semi-legendary tales of love—Harmodius and Aristogeiton. |
| X. | Dorian Customs—Sparta and Crete—Conditions of Dorian life—Moral quality of Dorian love—Its final degeneracy—Speculations on the early Dorian Ethos—Bœotians' customs—The sacred band—Alexander the Great—Customs of Elis and Megara—Hybris—Ionia. |
| XI. | Paiderastia in poetry of the lyric age. Theognis and Kurnus—Solon—Ibycus, the male Sappho—Anacreon and Smerdies—Drinking songs—Pindar and Theoxenos—Pindar's lofty conception of adolescent beauty. |
| XII. | Paiderastia upon the Attic stage—Myrmidones of Æschylus—Achilles' lovers, and Niobe of Sophocles—The Chrysippus of Euripides—Stories about Sophocles—Illustrious Greek paiderasts. |
| XIII. | Recapitulation of points—Quotation from the speech of Pausanias on love in Plato's Symposium—Observations on this speech. Position of women at Athens—Attic notion of marriage as a duty—The institution of Paidagogoi—Life of a Greek boy—Aristophanes' Clouds—Lucian's Amores—The Palæstra—The Lysis—The Charmides—Autolicus in Xenophon's Symposium—Speech of Critobulus on beauty and love—Importance of gymnasia in relation to paiderastia—Statues of Erôs—Cicero's opinions—Laws concerning the gymnasia—Graffiti on walls—Love-poems and panegyrics—Presents to boys—Shops and mauvais lieux—Paiderastic Hetaireia—Brothels—Phædon and Agathocles. Street-brawls about boys—Lysias in Simonem. |
