Passionate male friendships were seen as a specific life-stage thing: they're sweet for young men in their teens and twenties, but they're meant to be set aside when as young men grow up and get married.
That sounds sooo much like the supposed Greek ideal between the young Beloved and the older Lover &c &c.
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Date: 2021-10-24 08:55 am (UTC)That sounds sooo much like the supposed Greek ideal between the young Beloved and the older Lover &c &c.