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Mosaic with Hylas and Nymphs from Tor Bella Monaca, Rome (2nd century BC).<\/em><\/p>\n Among the myths to which Greek lovers referred with pride, besides that of Achilles, were the legends of Theseus and Peirithous, of Orestes and Pylades, of Talos and Rhadamanthus, of Damon and Pythias. Nearly all the Greek gods, except, I think, oddly enough, Ares, were famous for their love. Poseidon, according to Pindar, loved Pelops; Zeus, besides Ganymede, was said to have carried off Chrysippus. Apollo loved Ayacinth, and numbered among his favourites Branchos and Claros. Pan loved Cyparissus, and the spirit of the evening star loved Hymen\u00e6us. Hypnos, the god of slumber, loved Endymion, and sent him to sleep with open eyes, in order that he might always gaze upon their beauty. (Ath. xiii. 564). The myths of Ph\u0153bus, Pan, and Hesperus, it may be said in passing, are paiderastic parallels to the tales of Adonis and Daphne. They do not represent the specific quality of national Greek love at all in the same way as the legends of Achilles, Theseus, Pylades, and Pythias. We find in them merely a beautiful and romantic play of the mythop\u0153ic fancy, after paiderastia had taken hold on the imagination of the race. The case is different with Herakles, the patron, eponym, and ancestor of Dorian Hellas. He was a boy-lover of the true heroic type. In the innumerable amours ascribed to him we always discern the note of martial comradeship. His passion for Iolaus was so famous that lovers swore their oaths upon the Theban’s tomb; while the story of his loss of Hylas supplied Greek poets with one of their most charming subjects. From the idyll of Theocritus called Hylas<\/i> we learn some details about the relation between lover and beloved, according to the heroic ideal…<\/p>\n A Problem in Greek Ethics; Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion<\/a> (1883\/1908) by John Addington Symonds<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hylas mosaic, Saint-Romain-en-Gal-Vienne, France (3rd century).<\/em><\/p>\n Not for us only, Nicias, (vain the dream,) A fair curled creature, Hylas was his name. Nor when the hen\u2019s shrill brood becomes aware Rape of Hylas mosaic from the Basilica of Junius Bassus, Rome (first half of the 4th century).<\/em><\/p>\n Water the fair lad wont to seek and bring There rose the sea-blue swallow-wort, and there And fast did Malis and Eunica cling, Theocritus, Idyll XIII: Hylas<\/a> (translated by CS Calverley)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hylas and the Nymphs (1635) by Francesco Furini.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas with the Golden Jug (c.1650) by Il Volterrano (Baldassare Franceschini).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hylas (c.1650) by Il Volterrano (Baldassare Franceschini).<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas and a Nymph, French School, 19th century.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas and the Nymph (1826) by Fran\u00e7ois G\u00e9rard.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas Surprised by the Naiades (1827\u20131836?) by John Gibson.<\/em><\/p>\n Der Raub des Hylas (1830) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn.<\/em><\/p>\n Young Hylas with the Water Nymphs (1833) by William Etty.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas (1846) by Herman Wilhelm Bissen.<\/em><\/p>\n A Naiad, or Hylas with a Nymph (1893) by John William Waterhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) by John William Waterhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas and the Water Nymphs (1909) by Henrietta Rae.<\/em><\/p>\n Hylas statue for Regent’s Park Fountain, London (1922) by Henry Albert Pegram.<\/em><\/p>\n Hercules and Hylas (2016) by Malcolm Lidbury.<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Mosaic with Hylas and Nymphs from Tor Bella Monaca, Rome (2nd century BC). Among the myths to which Greek lovers referred with pride, besides that of Achilles, were the legends of Theseus and Peirithous, of Orestes and Pylades, of Talos and Rhadamanthus, of Damon and Pythias. 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\nSprung from what god soe\u2019er, was Eros born:
\nNot to us only grace doth graceful seem,
\nFrail things who wot not of the coming morn.
\nNo\u2014for Amphitryon\u2019s iron-hearted son [Heracles],
\nWho braved the lion, was the slave of one:\u2014<\/p>\n
\nHe taught him, as a father might his child,
\nAll songs whereby himself had risen to fame;
\nNor ever from his side would be beguiled
\nWhen noon was high, nor when white steeds convey
\nBack to heaven\u2019s gates the chariot of the day,<\/p>\n
\nOf bed-time, as the mother\u2019s flapping wings
\nShadow the dust-browned beam. \u2018Twas all his care
\nTo shape unto his own imaginings
\nAnd to the harness train his favourite youth,
\nTill he became a man in very truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"4thC.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/4thC.jpg\")
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\nTo Heracles and stalwart Telamon,
\n(The comrades aye partook each other’s fare,)
\nBearing a brazen pitcher. And anon,
\nWhere the ground dipt, a fountain he espied,
\nAnd rushes growing green about its side.<\/p>\n
\nThe pale-hued maidenhair, with parsley green
\nAnd vagrant marsh-flowers; and a revel rare
\nIn the pool’s midst the water-nymphs were seen
\nTo hold, those maidens of unslumbrous eyes
\nWhom the belated peasant sees and flies.<\/p>\n
\nAnd young Nychea with her April face,
\nTo the lad’s hand, as stooping o’er the spring
\nHe dipt his pitcher. For the young Greek’s grace
\nMade their soft senses reel; and down he fell,
\nAll of a sudden, into that black well.<\/p>\n![\"1630-Furini.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1630-Furini.jpg\")
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