demanded vengeance from Philip. The king was sympathetic but since Attalus was one of his most valued commanders and the uncle of Philip's newest wife, he did not punish him. Pausanias bided his time, then, when Philip was walking in his royal robes unguarded in his daughter's marriage procession, he stabbed him to death before the assembled guests. Pausanias was then killed by Philip's attendants as he fled the scene. It would be hard to over-estimate the role played by homosexuality in classical Greece. In Macedon it was an important fact in the turbulent lives of its rulers. In Athens, at the beginning of the sixth century, it was reputed to have bound such leaders as Solon and Pisistratus by intimate personal ties. At the end of the century, the lovers Aristogiton and Harmodius were credited with over-throwing the tyranny of Pisistratus' sons, and became the patron heroes of Athenian democracy. Its significance in Greek intellectual life is brilliantly reflected in the dialogues of Plato. But love between men owed its high prestige primarily to one consideration -- its perceived ability to inspire heroic self-sacrifice in men, especially in some military cause. In this respect it supported one of the society's pre-eminent male ideals -- that of the courageous warrior, an ideal required by the fact that a city or state that failed to produce such men might face subjugation or even enslavement by its rivals. Of all the instances of the institutionalisation of male love in the pursuit of