I’ll bet they didn’t tell you that in high school. So “ catamite ” is derived from “Ganymede” who was the boy lover of Zeus. But only males can be pederasts.) If something that would be attacked if it were contemporary is displaced into history or plainly labeled sci-fi or myth, it seems to be tolerated. Of course, then I had to look up pederasty and catamite. The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, who makes him his favorite. (It took me weeks as a teenager in Portland, Oregon, to find out what sodomy was. It’s a strange phenomenon that the most uptight and righteous cultures are often the safest for outliers, because there’s little recognition of what they are. If it had been “American,” there might have been outcry and, in fact, there was enough tsuris in England to indicate a move to South Africa was wise. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great series Book 2). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. It is, therefore, an historical romance, If it had been written by a gay man, there might have been uproar, but it was written by a gay woman. The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great series Book 2) - Kindle edition by Renault, Mary. “The Persian Boy” is a study in devotion justified by greatness, based on the historical evidence of a slave boy, Bagoas, who was the personal attendant and lover of Alexander the Great.
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