04-05-2007, 03:46 PM
I'm a bit baffled by this thread. There are enough written and pictural sources which give clear hints that the Greek view of certain homosexual relations was different to that common in some modern cultures. Maybe Sparta was an exception, I'm not very interested in this polis and not very well informed about it, but I don't think so.
Sexual assaults against children (and others) were certainly not accepted, but relations with older boys and young men seemed not to be abnormal for a certain social class, at least in Athen, Thebes, Crete and Macedonia. So what?
Sexual assaults against children (and others) were certainly not accepted, but relations with older boys and young men seemed not to be abnormal for a certain social class, at least in Athen, Thebes, Crete and Macedonia. So what?
Wolfgang Zeiler
