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Contents:
- WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
- SACRED BAND OF THEB — AN ARMY OF GAY THAT DEFEATED SPARTANS
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- SPARTANS ARE GAY HERO “A TTH OR MYTH” IN ANCIENT HISTORY
WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
Durg the ancient Greece perd, the practic of gay were mon among emperors. It was later seen their ary forc. This practice was not forceful, but there was a motive. It was to… * homosexuality among spartans *
The state of Sparta ma homosexual relatnships mandatory. The homoerotic element nnot be entirely ignored. Lbian and gay women’s relatnships Ancient Sparta.
Gay men and women ancient Sparta. Heterosexualy and homosexualy were both enuraged and expected at different stag life, wh homosexualy, mon wh prevalent ancient Greek thought, beg seen as the ial form of love and heterosexualy as sential for procreatn.
There is no evince of any law banng homosexual relatnships where one partner subms to the other, but Xenophon do mentn the forbiddg of physil perastic relatnships by the semi-mythil law-giver Lycurg. While much has been wrten on the topic of homosexualy, both Sparta and other Greek cy stat, the evince is often send-hand, open to terpretatn and / or que possibly a reflectn of an (ancient) thor's bias. Xenophon mak que a number of referenc to homosexualy Greece, ntrastg a Spartan man's appreciatn for a boy's character wh other Greeks' greater tenncy to physil relatnships.
SACRED BAND OF THEB — AN ARMY OF GAY THAT DEFEATED SPARTANS
The Muncie Spartans are such total fuckg fags, du. That whole entire school is gay, but the guys on the football team are the biggt homos of all. The Wtbridge High Panthers beat the Spartans four out of the last five gam, and the one we lost? That was when our quarterback, Kent, had the flu. * homosexuality among spartans *
Keepg the above md, Xenophon says that the Spartan (semi-mythil) law-giver Lycurg did not approve of physil homosexual relatnships between the erastēs ('lover', the olr partner ually aged 20 to 30) and the erōmenos ('beloved', the younger partner ually aged 12 to 18).
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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there was no law banng homosexual acts wh boys Sparta. the preferable ncln is that the Spartans had no law on the subject of homosexual relatnships. McDowell's view is broadly le wh most other amic opn; see Brian Bertosa, 'Sacrifice to Eros and Homosexualy the Spartan Army' (2009) - the thor also c other amics this article.
Note also that Xenophon c Lycurg only on perastic homosexual relatnships, not on relatnships between adult men. However, men were expected to marry and have children who would grow up to bee eher (for men) soldiers of the state or (for women) mothers of more soldiers, so seems unlikely that homosexualy was enuraged to the extent that was wh the Theban Sacred Band. Did not officially enurage, let alone stutnalize, for ary purpos homosexual realtnships between two men of adult fightg age.
Th, we nnot fer om this that Spartans practiced homosexualy eher more or ls than other Greek stat:. Five jok about Spartan homosexualy [ Lysistrata], then. Athenian homosexuals, and ed about Athenian sexual.
SPARTANS ARE GAY HERO “A TTH OR MYTH” IN ANCIENT HISTORY
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Spartans was one of the ary forc that has a historil imprsn of the gay was the Sacred Band of Theb, the soldiers who feated the Spartans the 4th century BC. It is possible that the fluence of homosexual nnectn showg a sign of had Homosexualy their armySculpture of Band Of Theb | Image Source: Wikimedia CommonsThe history of the Theb warrrs still mentns the 150 warrrs who were male lovers who fought the battle of Lctra and feated the Spartans. He was the lear that end the domance of the creatn of the Sacred Band was by Boeotarch Gidas between 379 to 378 BC, which slowly extend s soldiers to 300 was not that the Gay ary forc were limed to the Theb, but the Spartans' ary forc were followg siar strategi.