![]() ![]() We have already suggested that inversion was never very prevalent except in one class of society and over quite a limited period." (pg 140) He also writes "The permanent popularity of courtesans in ancient Greece is surely the best proof that homosexuals were either not consistently so or not particularly numerous. (Robert Flaceliere’s Love in Ancient Greece pg 49-50) The subject, however, of the comedy by Aristophanes entitled Lysistrata suggests that homosexuality was hardly rampant among the people at large. But they may give the impression that pederasty was practiced by the entire nation. The available texts deal mainly with the leisured nobility of Athens. The masses of peasants and artisans were probably scarcely affected by habits of this kind, which seem to have been associated with a sort of snobbery. "t appears extremely likely that homosexuality of any kind was confined to the prosperous and aristocratic levels of ancient society. Was deprived of all civic rights for life. Any man against whom complaint was made of any disgraceful embracing Was held to be disgraceful, on the ground that the affection was for the body and notįor the mind. 30 - 32.)Īffectionate regard for boys of good character was permissible, but embracing them ![]() So we have songs telling also how Orestes, Pylades, Theseus, Peirithous, and many other illustrious demi-gods wrought glorious deeds of valor side by side, not because they shared a common bed but because of mutual admiration and respect.”(Symposium, VIII. “ Homer pictures us Achilles looking upon Patroclus not as the object of his passion but as a comrade, and in this spirit signally avenging his death. Regarding the myth of Ganymede and Zeus, the myth is compared to But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward beauty, he banned the connection asĪn abomination and thus he caused mentors to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers :and sisters with each other. Him an ideal friend without reproach and to associate with him, he approved,Īnd believed in the excellence of this kind of training. If someone, being himself an honest man, admired a boy's soul and tried to make of The Athenian would shortly later say “We had got about as far as the establishment of the common tabels, which in most places would be difficult, BUT IN CRETE NO ONE WOULD THINK OF INDRODUCING ANY OTHER CUSTOM.” Meaning that the Cretans would adopt the law. Megistess responds “I, for my part stranger, would gladly recieve this law.” What this basically means is that no man shall touch a woman except his wedded wife and that love between males should be prohibited. In Plato’s laws the anonymous Athenian states “in the matter of love we may be able to enforce one of two things-either that no one shall venture to touch any person of the freeborn or noble class except his wedded wife, or sow the unconsecrated and bastard seed among harlots, or in barren and unnatural lusts or at elast we may abolish altogether the connection of men with men and as to women, if any man has to do with any but those who come into his house duly married by sacred rites, whether they be bought or acquired in any other way, and he offends publicly in the face of all mankind, we shall be right in enacting that he be deprived of civic honors and privileges, and be deemed to be, as he truly is, a stranger.” (laws 841) ![]()
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