>>13955922>The erotic relation of men to youths was the necessary and sole preparation, to a degree unattainable to our comprehension, of all manly education (pretty much as for a long time all higher education of women was only attainable through love and marriage). All idealism of the strength of the Greek nature threw itself into that relation, and it is probable that never since have young men been treated so attentively, so lovingly, so entirely with a view to their welfare (virtus) as in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.—Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human
>What does our chatter about the Greeks amount to! What do we understand of their art, the soul of which is passion for naked male beauty!—Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, Aphorism 170
