Tall and Tanned and Young and Lovely

James Davidson

  • Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece by Andrew Stewart
    Cambridge, 272 pp, £45.00, April 1997, ISBN 0 521 45064 0

‘If you saw him naked, you would forget about his face,’ Chaerephon mutters in Socrates’ ear. His cousin Charmides had entered the gymnasium, his beauty causing turmoil and consternation. Socrates astonished even himself: he was used to finding young men attractive, but Charmides was something else. Even the youngest boys in the room turned to stare, gazing at him ‘as if he were a statue’.

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