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/ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/ · noun
(Ancient Greece) An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him..
In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.
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Eromenos means (Ancient Greece) An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him..
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In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.
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