The main objectives of this study are not so much to demonstrate the widespread prevalence in ancient Greece of relationships currently called homosexual (which is not difficult), but to: - Identify the system of social practices and images associated with same-sex love (which developed over time in a special semantic code), and those transformations that this system underwent over time; - Distinguishing between myths rooted in ritual and dating back to the Bronze Age, and myths either simply created according to an existing paradigm, or transforming a plot that had a different content; - Identification of the origins of a series philosophical terms (primarily in Platonism);— Establishing the causes and time of the formation of the “homophobic” tradition, its initial nature and further development. — Outlining the lines of comparison of practices and cultural stereotypes of the Greeks and a number of other peoples (unfortunately, the amount of surviving information is often disproportionate) ;— An indication (in the Variations section) of the main trends in the perception of same-sex love in Greece in subsequent eras;— Arranging, in neoplatonic language, numerous phenomena of Eros into an intelligible hierarchical system (series), ascending from the sphere of the sensual to the Soul and Mind. However, the latter The research itself does not solve the problem, but provides material for the development of such a construction. (Anton Svatkovsky)