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 | | From: | Elbert Wall | | Subject: | Two supposed quotes out of antiquity | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:13:12 GMT |
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 | One John Boswell, writing about 1980, gives two quotations, which he
claims come out of antiquity. The first is supposedly from Plato
somewhere: "Zeus came as an eagle to godlike Ganymede and as a swan to
the fairhaired mother of Helen. One person prefers one gender, another
the other, I like both."
It is claimed that the other is Plutarch: "No sensible person can
imagine that the es differ in matters of love as they do in matters
of clothing. The intelligent lover of beauty will be attracted to beauty
in whichever gender he finds it."
I can't find anything even remotely like either quote in Plato or
Plutarch. Does anyone have a *locus* for either one? They look to me
like someone trying to recall something he heard in a lecture somewhere.
--
We all grow up to disappoint our mothers
.... and confound our fathers.
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