Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged relationship between an older male and a younger male during his teens. This institution involved roles called erastês for the active partner and erômenos for the passive youth, often framed within aristocratic education known as paideia.
Kenneth Dover published Greek Homosexuality on the 1st of January 1978 to standardize terms like erastês and erômenos for these relationships. His work defined the older partner as active or dominant and the younger as passive or subordinate.
The oldest surviving representation of pederastic custom originates from Crete on a brass plaque dating between 650 BC and 625 BC. Such images appeared across Greece within the following century and were grounded in initiation rituals involving abduction.
Plato took a stricter view in Laws because he blamed pederasty for promoting civil strife and driving many to wits' end. He recommended prohibiting sexual intercourse with youths through specific paths laid out in the text.
Spartan views remained disputed among ancient sources and historians regarding whether pederasty was chaste non-sexual or based on physical attraction. Xenophon stated the relationship was tolerated if based on friendship love rather than solely physical sexual attraction.