A catamite is a (very much)(usually male)younger person who searches out an older person for sexual and interpersonal relations.

A catamite is the younger partner in a relationship between two males and was a popular arrangement in the ancient world, especially ancient Rome. Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The word Catamite is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, a corruption of the Greek Ganymedes, the boy who was seduced by Zeus and became his beloved and cupbearer in Greek mythology. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of what are now Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy. ... In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês)) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Zeús, genitive: Diós), is... A cup-bearer was an officer of high rank in royal courts, whose duty it was to serve the wine at the kings table. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

Anthony Burgess starts his novel Earthly Powers with the sentence: Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic and composer. ... Earthly Powers is a 1980 novel by Anthony Burgess, generally considered to be his masterpiece. ...

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