Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 15

Chapter XV.&#8212;Unnatural Lusts.

&#8220;&#8216;And not to spend the time in an endless exposition, you will find numerous unions with Jupiter of all the gods.&#160; But senseless men call these doings of the gods adulteries; even of those gods who did not refrain from the abuse of males as disgraceful, but who practised even this as seemly.&#160; For instance, Jupiter himself was in love with Ganymede:&#160; Poseidon with Pelops; Apollo with Cinyras, Zacyinthus, Hyacinthus, Phorbas, Hylas, Admetus, Cyparissus, Amyclas, Troilus, Branchus the Tymn&#230;an, Parus the Potnian, Orpheus; Dionysus with Laonis, Ampelus, Hymen&#230;us, Hermaphrodites, Achilles; Asclepius with Hippolytus, and Heph&#230;stus with Peleus; Pan with Daphnis; Hermes with Perseus, Chrysas, Theseus, Odrysus; Hercules with Abderus, Dryops, Jocastus, Philoctetes, Hylas, Polyphemus, H&#230;mon, Chonus, Eurystheus.