The two most principal areas of historical inquiry which have been studied by historians in relation to ancient occurrences of homosexuality are Greek homosexuality and Roman homosexuality,The largest amount of material pertinent to the history of homosexuality is from Greece, from notable philosophers and writers such as Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, and pseudo-Lucian, to plays by Aristophanes, to Greek artwork and vases. James B. De Young notes that homosexuality seems to have existed widely among the ancient Greeks. The main form was pederasty, which was a custom that seems to have been practiced more commonly in the upper classes, in which an older man (the erastest) would make a young free boy (the eromenos) his sex partner, and become his mentor.
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