- Male homosexuality was central to Athenian Culture.
- Friendship usually took form of a pederastic relationship: the junior partner (the beloved) was normally between twelve and eighteen years old. Source indicated that as soon as youth developed a beard the relationship usually ended, since he became less attractive in the eyes of adult men.
- the lover was expected to take the initiative and to pursue the beloved rather than the other way around.
- Often times the lover would offer beautiful, useful and sometimes expensive gifts: the relationship clearing resting on "you do something for me, I will do something for you"
- Beloved would be tempted by a portin of meat, a discus, a flask of olive oil, a flower, an apple, a garland, or a pouch of money. Several animals were also popular as gifts, the rooster, and the hare being the most common.
- Greek boys were fond of cockfighting; it was also thouht of that eating the flesh of the hare stimulated a man's willingness to allow himself to be penetrated.
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