Public DomaWhy do we see so many football and gby teams named for the Spartans, and only one for the Thebans, though Theb fact feated Sparta battle and end s reign as superpower of Greece? The explanatn li ep the prejudic of ancient Greek historians and thkers, as do the spiratn for that one exceptn: The Caledonian Thebans, Sttish ggers who fe themselv as gay, bisexual, or ;s start by notg that Greek Theb (not to be nfed
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THE VICTOR GAY GREEK ARMY THAT GOT CANCELED BY HISTORY
A proment Italian historian has claimed that the Roman Empire llapsed bee a “ntagn of homosexualy and effemacy” ma easy pickgs for barbarian hors, sparkg a fur row. The Conservative Catholic historians Roberto De Mattei explas the danger of acceptance of Homosexualy.
Roberto De Mattei, 63, the puty head of the untry’s Natnal Rearch Council, claimed that the empire was fatally weakened after nquerg Carthage, which he scribed as “a paradise for homosexuals”. The remarks prompted angry lls for his rignatn, wh crics sayg his ments were homophobic, offensive and unbeg of his posn. The fall of the Roman Empire was a rult of “the effemacy of a few Carthage, a paradise for homosexuals, who fected the many.
“The abhorrent prence of a few gays fected a good part of the (Roman) people, ” Prof Mattei told Rad Maria, a Catholic rad statn. A homoerotic scene Spartac which Lrence Olivier’s character, the Roman General Crass, attempts to sce a young slave played by Tony Curtis was cut om the origal film but rtored the 1990s.