/lit/ - Literature

To be honest at first I just had the one Daedalus/Icarus painting saved but it was too large to upload to I went to find a smaller version of it on google images. To my surprise erotic adaptations of this theme seem to have been a genre in and of themselves.
Calasso addresses Greek pederasty quite well in his The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Calasso is criminally under-discussed on this board).
Why did Goethe end Faust Pt. 2 with the devil being blinded by the erotic power of boy angels? It might've fit more with the classical segment.
I haven't read the section Paglia included in her Sexual Personae on "The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer" but it's probably great or awful.