Greek love is a relatively modern English term synonymous with other similar phrases. The ambiguity of an ancient Greek model of "friendship" can imply a male bonding between equals or a spiritual, educational and/or sexual union of males of varying age. Quotation marks are generally placed on either or both words, i.e. , "Greek" love, Greek "love" or "Greek love".

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  • Greek love is a relatively modern English term synonymous with other similar phrases. The ambiguity of an ancient Greek model of "friendship" can imply a male bonding between equals or a spiritual, educational and/or sexual union of males of varying age. Quotation marks are generally placed on either or both words, i.e. , "Greek" love, Greek "love" or "Greek love". The term is documented as beginning in German writings between 1750 and 1850 with such terms as "griechische Liebe" (Greek love), "socratische Liebe" (Socratic Love) and "platonische Liebe" (Platonic love), which were designated for male-male attractions. Apart from its perceived historical connotation, no such term is found in any surviving text from any ancient source. While there are terms, such as Mos Graeciae (Greek custom) and Mos Graecorum (the Greek Way), they were never deployed in reference to pederasty, but for a variety of Greek practices.
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  • Greek love is a term which originates in the mid 18th and 19th Century Germany at a time of Hellenistic revival during the literary period known as "Neo Classicism".
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  • ''Heracles'' and Iolaus (l.). Foot of the so-called “Cista Ficoroni”, Etruscan bronze casting ritual vessel, 4th c. BCE. Villa Giulia Rome.
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  • ''' Sir Kenneth James Dover''', FRSE, FBA, former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford .
  • Dr James Davidson, M.A. (Oxford), M.A., M.Phil. (Columbia) D.Phil. (Oxford)
  • Dr. Louis Crompton, Professor of English, University of Nebraska
  • Professor Thomas K. Hubbard, Greek and Roman Literature, Literary Theory, University of Texas at Austin
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  • Greek Love
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  • Greek love is a relatively modern English term synonymous with other similar phrases. The ambiguity of an ancient Greek model of "friendship" can imply a male bonding between equals or a spiritual, educational and/or sexual union of males of varying age. Quotation marks are generally placed on either or both words, i.e. , "Greek" love, Greek "love" or "Greek love".
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