Editing Eromenos (section)

== Terminology ==
''Erômenos'' (ἐρώμενος) means 'one who is sexually desired' in Greek language and is the past participle of the verb ''eramai'', to have sexual desire. In ''[[Greek Homosexuality (book)|Greek Homosexuality]]'', the first modern scholarly work on this topic, [[Kenneth Dover]] used the literal translation of the Greek word as an English word to refer to the passive partner in Greek homosexual relationship. Though in many contexts the younger man is also called ''pais'', 'boy', the word can also be used for child, girl, son, daughter and slave, and therefore ''eromenos'' would be more specific and can "avoid the cumbrousness and…imprecision of 'boy'".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Dover|first=Kenneth J.|title=Greek Homosexuality|publisher=Harvard UP|year=1989|location=Cambridge|pages=16}}</ref> It is in contrast to the masculine active participle erάn ('be in love with...', 'have a passionate desire for').<ref name=":0" /> The word ''erastes'' (lover), however, can be adapted to a married man's role in both heterosexual and homosexual relationship.