Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mircea Eliade, Pederasty, Pederasty In Ancient Greece
6 May 2016
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Giulia sissa, sex and sensuality in the ancient world: the relationship between the. Erast s and the eromenos is not simply asymmetrical; it is powerfully pedagogic. Mircea eliade, rites and symbols of initiation, p7: The term initiation in the most general sense denotes a body of rites and oral teachings whose purpose it to produce a decisive alteration in the religious and social status of the person to be initiated. In philosophical terms, initiation is equivalent to an ontological mutation of the existential condition. The novice emerges from his ordeal with a totally different being: he has become another. Initiation ritual: ordeal, wakefulness, suffering silence, isolation, wandering and terror, close connection with ruling deities of the group, presence of male authority figure as guide, submission and obedience to that authority, reintegration. Victor turner, forest of symbols: aspects of ndembu ritual. Olympian 1 and paiderastic initiation poseidon and pelops. To that well-ordered banquet in his beloved sipylus.
