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This paper examines the works of Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds in terms of Faucauldian framework, relating homo-eroticism with the problem of ethical subject. Their works show how a homosexual counter-discourse to justify male love could be fashioned out of the discourse of Greek studies in 19th-century Oxford. On one hand Walter Pater argues that the intensification of sensation in its immediacy and rich variety found in Socratic eros can be inscribed into the late Victorian culture and bring Renaissance to English society. On the other hand, John Addington Symonds rejects the intellectualized and aristocratic Socratic eros in favour of the value of powerful same-sex attachment between the older and the younger. He argues that the beloved in boy love with restraint and self- mastery grows into an politically efficient citizen, who will make a social progress in both Greece and Victorian England. Though the ideas of Pater and Symonds could not be realized in Victorian England, theirs constitute a point of resistance to increasingly repressive Victorian sexual ideology.
