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Summary
In the city of Theron, a young man enters the house of Ariston, a scholar whose masculine beauty, strength, and discipline are spoken of almost like a blessing.
Philon is young, clever, and painfully aware that cleverness alone does not make a man. He wants discipline. He wants the beauty of a fully formed man. He wants the courage and self-command that Eridia praises in its finest men. Under Ariston’s hand, he learns argument, observation, self-command, and the older education beneath them all: how the body is corrected, opened, restrained, pleasured, and blessed.
What begins with a wavering point on a wax tablet becomes the story of a life shaped in Ariston’s house: disciple, lover, husband, father, natural philosopher, and at last a master in his own right.
* An ancient Greek-inspired erotic Bildungsroman about philosophy, male love, discipline, marriage, and the difficult art of returning what one has received.
Series
- Part 1 of Lives and Myths of Eridia