Complete List of Gods' and Heroes' Lesser Known Male Love
This is pride month, so might as well redo my other post, but now more organized, properly cited including new ones, and several new additions I can find that are marked green. I posted few examples previously that are extremely obscure, so I figured I moved them to a different post to not further clutter here.
Not gonna go full detail on these couples as I'm sure everyone knows them. Zeus/Ganymede, Poseidon/Pelops, Apollo/Hyacinth, Achilles/Patroclus, Achilles/Troilus, and Heracles/Hylas.
Important disclaimer that some of these are more ambiguous than others due to the nature of the text and language, thus they contain a question mark and a footnote.
Adonis [Scholi. ad. Theocritum vetera 63]
Chrysippus [Praxilla = Athenaeus 13.79; *Clement, Exhortations 2.28?]
Euphorion [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.24]
Priam [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.48]
*Chrysippus [Clement, Exhortations 2.28?]
Nerites [Aelian, Characteristics of Animals 14.28]
Patroclus [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.6]
Caeneus [Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fr. 165 Most (= fr. 87 MW); Ovid, Met., 12.168–209; Apollodorus, E.1.22; Scholia D on Homer, Iliad, 1.264]
Admetus [Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 47; Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.239; Tibullus, Elegies 2.3; Ps-Plutarch, Am. 17, Numa 4.5; Nonnus 10.321]
Adonis [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.42]
Amyclas [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Boreas [Valerius Flaccus, 4.465]
Branchus the Tymnæan [Callimachus, Iambi fr. 217 Pf; Conon, Narrations (Photius) 33; Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 6, the Hall 26?; Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 4.17; Strabo 14.1.5; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15;]
Carnus [Praxilla = Conon, Narrations (Photius) 26]
Cinyras [Pindar, Pythian Odes 2.1 ; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Cyparissus [Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.16; Scholia ad. Statius Thebaid 4.460; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15; Servius Danielis, ad. Aeneadem 3.680]
Helenus [Photius (Ptolemy Chennus), Bibliotheca, 190.49]
Hylas [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Leucatas [Servius, Commens Aeneid 3,279.]
Hippolytus of Sicyon [Plutarch, Life of Numa 4.5]
Hymeneous [Antoninus Liberalis, Met. 23 (= Hesiod, Megalai Ehoiai fr. 16)]
Melampus [Scholia ad. Apollonius Argonautica A118]
Orpheus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Paris [Eustathius, Comm. ad Hom. Odyssey, 11.538 1696, 50]
Parus the Potnian [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Phorbas [Plutarch, Numa 4.5; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Troilus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Zacyinthus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Amphion [Philostr. Im. 1. 10.3]
Antheus [Alexander of Aetolia frag. 3 Magnelli; Aristotle and Milesian Historians via Parthenius 14]
Chrysas [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Crocus [Galenus, Medicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 13, 269 Kuhn, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locos 9.4; Servius, Commens Virgil Georgics 4.182]
Daphnis [Aelian. VH. 10.18]
Orpheus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Perseus [Ps-Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.12?; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Polydectes [Photius (Ptolemy Chennus), Bibliotheca, 190.50]
Theseus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Hephæstus: Peleus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
**Ares: Alectryon? [Lucian, Gallus 3; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26; Scholiast on Aristophanes' Aves 835]
Achilles [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Adonis [Plato Comicus Adonis fr. 3.4 (7.435 K-A?) = Athenaeus 10.83b; Phanocles fr. 3 CA = Ps-Plutarch Moralia 670e; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Ampelus [[Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15; Nonnus 11.185]
Chiron [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.33]
Hermaphrodites [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Hymenæus [Nonnus 13.83 2.9.39-44; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Prosymnus [Clement, Exhortations 2.31; Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 212]
Staphylus [Aristophanes via Suidas s.v. Enekheis 1020]
Pan: Daphnis [Theocritus Inscription IV, Epigram AP 6.177; Glaucus AP 9.341 = 3 HE; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Priapus: Daphnis [Theocritius Epigram AP 9.338]
Zephyrus: Cyparissus [Nonnus 11.363–365; Serv. A. 3.680]
Hesperus: Hymenaeus [Serv. Ecl. 8.30]
Argynnus [Likymnios, Dithyrambs PMG 768 = Athen. 13.603d]
Hypnos: Endymion [Licymnius Dithyrambs PMG771 = Athen. 13. 564cd]
Atymnius [Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2]
Ganymede [Dosiadas, FGrHist 458 F5; Echemenes, FGrHist 259 F1 = Athenaeus 13.77; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Arpalia; Suda s.v. Minos mu, 1039; Eustathius on Homer, pp. 986, 1205.]
Miletus [Antoninus Liberalis, Met. 30; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2]
Theseus [Zenis of Chios = Athenaeus 13.77]
Atymnius [Philostratus Letter 8.46]
Talos [Ibycus frag. 32 = Athenaeus 603d; Suida s.v. Theta 41]
Atymnius [Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2]
Miletus [Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2]
Abderus [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.12; Philostratus of Lemnos, Eikones 2.25; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Admetus [Ps-Plutarch, Am. 17]
Adonis [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.11]
Argos [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.14]
Chonus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Corythus [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.14]
Diomus [Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 1207; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Diomeia 231.12]
Dryops [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Elacatas [Bernard Sergent (1986): According to Sosibius, there was in Sparta a sanctuary whose name, the Elacataeon, derived from that of a hero, Elacatas, in whose honor the Spartans staged the games known as the Elacatia.' Sosibius, who is a good historian of Sparta, also tells us that Elacatas was the erômenos of Heracles.]
Eurystheus [Diotimus = Athenaeus 603d; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Hæmon [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Iolaus [Ps-Plutarch, Am. 17]
Jocastus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Nestor [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.10]
Nireus of Syme [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.11]
Perithyas/Perithoas [Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 1. 1207]
Philoctetes [Martial, Epigrams 2.84; Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 1. 1207]
Phrix/Trinx [Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 1. 1207]
Polyphemus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Polystratus/Sostratus [Pausanias, 7.17.8.]
Stichios [Ptolemy Chennus (Photius), Bibliotheca, 190.49]
Chrysippus [Ps-Hyginus, Fabulae 271]
Asclepius: Hippolytus [Ps-Clementine Homilies 5.15]
Kalais [Phanocles fr. 1 Collectanea Alexandrina]
unknown Thracian lovers [Phanocles Erotes fr. 1.10 Powell; Ovid, Met. 10.78–219]
Laius: Chrysippus [Scholi. ad. Euripides Ph. 60]
Oedipus: Chrysippus [Scholi. ad. Euripides Ph. 60]
Marsyas: Olympus [Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2.5.5, Imagines 1.20.1; Ps-Plutarch, On Music 7.]
Thamyris: Hyacinthus [Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.3.3]
Tantalus: Ganymede [Mnaseas FGrHist 3.154 F30; Phanocles frag. 4; Augustine, City of God 8.15; Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 355; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Arpalia; Eustathius ad Iliadem 20.219]
Paris: Antheus [Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 134]
Deiphobus: Antheus [Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 134]
Antilochus [Philostratus, Imagines, 2.7.1]
Agamemnon: Argynnus [Ibycus? = Athenaeus; Athen. 13. 603d; Phanocles, Frag. 5 Bach. Cp = Clement 2.34; Propertius 3.7.61-6; Ps-Plutarch Moralia 17; Stephanus of Byzantium A114 8]
Pylades? [Luc. Am. 47; Magical Papyrus = Supplementum Magicum 1.42]
Idomeneus: Meriones [Strato AP 12.2]
*In Clement text it stated, "For your gods did not abstain from boys. One loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, another Chrysippus, another Ganymedes." Theoi put Poseidon in bracket as Chrysippus' lover. However, we have a variant of Zeus as the erastes to him. Though Clement didn't stated who, I'm inclined to believe it meant Zeus, but putting in Poseidon for posterity sake.
**Discussed before. I decided to give them a bone since I already added Orestes and Peirithous.
***Although Xenophon listed Theseus/Peirithous and Orestes/Pylades alongside Achilles/Patroclus as primary examples of friendship or sworn brothers, 'loving' nature of the two former pairs also led to possibility of being interpreted as lovers, such as in Pseudo-Lucian who believed Orestes/Pylades are anything but friends. For Orestes/Pylades and Apollo, see Rabinowitz 305-308.
