Hippasus is one of the lost boys of Greek myth, unknown even to most classicists. And 'cult' is not too strong a word: there was a Roman emperor who turned his lost boy into a god, and you can go see his face in any half-decent museum of antiquities." And yes, they usually died, for pathos was an integral part of this cult of the beautiful youth. There was a time when every hero was provided with a boyfriend as a matter of course, as all these respectable Englishmen with their classical educations knew full well. "Why, given its sad ending, did my not-quite-ancestor choose this particular story? I wonder whether he had noticed the same tendency as I have: how young men – specifically pairs of young men – from Greek myth go missing in modern accounts. THE TELLER OFTEN TELLS THE TALE HE WANTS TO HEAR…
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