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by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:38 pm

Greek Homosexuality...

Greek homosexuality

“Violent debate, enthusiastic writings, shamefaced silence, flights of fantasy: few aspects of ancient society are so hotly contested as Greek pederasty, or -as we shall see below- homosexuality. Since the British classicist K.J. Dover published his influential book Greek Homosexuality in 1978, an avalanche of new studies has appeared. We can discern two approaches:”

http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homosexuali ... ality.html

by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:38 pm

Homosexuality and the Ancient Greeks

“The ancient Greeks are widely known for their homosexual exploits. Many ordinary people are aware of Greek homosexual love poetry, the same-sex relations of Greek gods and heroes, and the homosexual relationship between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion.

This is only a recent development. Until the second half of the 20th century, historians avoided saying much about the sexuality of the ancient Greeks out of sense of propriety. In 1901, an English classicist named John Addington Symonds published A Problem in Greek Ethics addressing homosexuality in Ancient Greece, but it was provided only to "medical psychologists and jurists" and the number of copies was intended to remain under 100.”

http://www.religionfacts.com/homosexual ... greeks.htm

by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:39 pm

Renowned Homosexuals of Ancient Greece

http://www.gay-art-history.org/gay-hist ... -love.html

by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:39 pm

Socrates was a Pederast Homosexual

"Today "Eros" would be considered sexual love, and in the days of ancient Greece, Eros was not only their god of love, but it was also their word that referred to sexual desire. In Greek society, especially during the Golden Age, this sexual desire does not seem to have been gender specific in any way. In fact most men seemed to be more interested in pursuing and having sexual relations with young boys – a practice known as pederasty – than they were with pursuing women. While this likely seems strange to a society where the majority of men find it repulsive to think of another man as beautiful, and where until recently homosexuals and bisexuals were looked down upon as being inferior, it was actually quite common and accepted in the ancient world of Greece."

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20 ... _homos.htm

by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:40 pm

Spartan Pederasty

“Spartan pederasty, the traditional intimate and pedagogic friendship between a man and a boy, a custom held in common with other Dorian tribes, is thought to have either been introduced at the time of the Dorian invasion, around 1200 B.C., or to have been instituted in the seventh century B.C. in emulation of that in Crete, which had evolved in response to population pressure.[citation needed] Sparta is thought to be the first city to practice athletic nudity, which evolved in parallel with formal pederastic practices”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_pederasty

by **Get Real!** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:40 pm

Make Love in Ancient Greece

“In his introduction to Edward FitzGerald’s famous adaptation of Omar Khayyam’s ‘Rubáiyát’, the editor remarks that:

FitzGerald (1809-1883) found himself a homosexual in a society that, while it admired and respected a civilization [that of classical Athens] that gloried in, and boasted of, its homosexuality, itself found the behaviour so offensive as to be virtually unmentionable.

Despite some progress in this matter since the Victorian age, it still does not seem that the full extent and importance of homosexual love in classical Athens and throughout all of ancient Greece is common knowledge today. Indeed, knowledge of male love may be even rarer than it was in FitzGerald’s time, since classical studies are no longer presented in most schools, and in the universities the subject attracts only the few."

http://www.gay-art-history.org/gay-hist ... -love.html