Erastes

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Erastes started to write homoerotic historical fiction because he couldn't find any other than the very few that were on the market, such as Gaywyck by Vincent Virga and the novels of Mary Renault.


On the Web

Books

  • Transgressions A homoerotic saga set in the turbulent years of the English Civil War - seeking a publisher

Short Stories

2007

  • Matelotage - to be published in Alyson Books' Pirate Anthology
  • Whatever the Risk - to be published in "Distant Horizons" by Haworth Press
  • Lucky - published in "Love in a Lock up" by Starbooks

2006

  • Petard - to be published by Clean Sheets

2005

  • His Story Teller - runner up in Torquere Press' "Do it yourself" competition

2004

  • Sin of the Tongue published in the Blasphemy anthology by Torquere Press
  • Lifeline published in the Chance Encounters anthology by Torquere Press

Memberships

Erastes is a member of the Erotica Readers and Writers Assocation and the Historical Novel Society

Other Information

Erastes/Eromenos

In the pederastic tradition of Classical Athens, the eromenos (Greek ἐρόμενος, pl. "eromenoi") was an adolescent boy who was in a love relationship with an adult man, known as the erastes (ἐραστής). The relationship was typically of a pedagogical nature and while it was also typically affectionate and passionate it was not necessarily sexual.