are the stimuli of pederasty. He also found that beardless male and female faces share the same contours, except for the eyes. Some scholars like Eva Cantarella and Cohen found that the lengths of time during which one ought to resist one's suitors' advances were similar in both same-sex and different-sex courtships; since the honour lay not in the refusal, but the choice of which was the best time to give in. Also, Garrison argues that the love of boys by men is emblematic of attitudes prevalent among the ruling class, in which love for women is devalued. The love for eromenoi can be related to misogyny in Ancient Greece. Not all homosexual relationships in Ancient Greece are typified as pederasty or as the erastes-eromenos relationship. The love between Achilles and Patroclus might be a counterargument to pederasty, for both of them showed their masculinity in this heroic, blood-brother like relationship, and were around the same age, with Patroclus only slightly older than Achilles. Later depictions The 20th-century English and South African writer Mary Renault was famous for her romantic novels on pederasty in Ancient Greece. Her novel The Last of the Wine (1956) tells the love story of Alexias, a beautiful and noble Athenian youth and Socrates’ student who was chased by a number of older men because of his beauty. Bernard F. Dick commented on her novels that they provided historically accurate representation of Greek homosexuality. Her fan community also created artworks that imitate Greek vase paintings portraying courting scenes between the erastes and eromenos. See also Pederasty in ancient Greece Homosexuality in ancient Greece Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece Greek Homosexuality References Selected bibliography Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Dover, Kenneth James. Greek Homosexuality. Updated and with a New Postcript. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Garrison, Daniel H. Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; v. 24. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Masterson, Mark, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson. Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Rewriting Antiquity. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2015. Neill, James. The Origins and Role of Same-sex Relations in Human Societies. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland &, 2009. Percy, William A. Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. Urbana: