... of which their ship is overtaken by pirates. Habrocomes and Anthia~ the hero and heroine~ are captured alive and transferred to the brigands' vessel. The pirates~ under the command of Corymbus~ then make for their base in the Phoenician city of Tyre~ where their leader~ Apsyrtus~ has his headquarters...

... around the middle are harder to quantify~ both now and in the records of the past. Ovid says that homosexual relations appealed to him "less. "45 In the Ephesiaca ~ a romantic novel of late antiquity~ sexual categories are not discussed~ but play a major role in the action. Habrocomes is involved...

..., for argues (67), goes beyond the text. the sixteen-year-old Habrocomes in the novel by Xenophon of 15 On beauty contests for men, Ephesus called Ephesiaca...

... some form of asymmetrical desire directed toward the young lovers. An Ephesian Tale narrativizes the desire of Cyno (an older, married woman) for Habrocomes, Melite preys upon Clitophon in Leucippe and Clitophon , and Arsace pursues Theagenes in Heliodorus’s An Ethiopian Story . 11...