Editing Eromenos (section)

=== Poems and literature ===
The love for an ''eromenos'' is a frequent topic in Ancient Greek poems. Dover studied poems related to pederasty and quoted some verses expressing love to the eromonos, ‘O boy with the virginal eyes, I seek you, but you do not listen, not knowing that you are the charioteer of my soul!’<ref name="ReferenceA">Dover, ''Greek Homosexuality'', 84.</ref> Also, A surviving fragment of Solon from the early sixth century B.C. writes that ‘Till he loves a lad in the flower of youth, bewitched by thighs and by sweet lips.’ <ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The graffiti of Thera verified that anal penetration was normal in pederastic relationships, for in the inscriptions, Krimon used the verb ''oiphein'' (male sexual act performed as either active or passive partner in Dorian dialect) to describe the intercourse with his ''eromenos'', which indicates anal penetration.<ref name=":1">Cantarella, Bisexuality in the ''Ancient World'', 26-27.</ref> Also, literature suggested that the charm of the ''eromenos'' lay in his attractive anal area, which was described by various metaphors such as rosebud, fruits, figs or gold.<ref name=":1" />

It is noteworthy that most of the Greek verses about homosexuality were about how the ''erastes'' longed for the ''eromenos'', but few were written from the perspective of the ''eromenos''.