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WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
Like other opprsed mori, gay people have a reason to voice their hardships and acplishments. However, vlatg and alterg history the name of gay pri is not necsary. One historil suatn that is often sourced the name of gay pri is the ancient Greek society and several ancient Greek historil figur that are falsely portrayed as gay pop culture.
Many morn terpreters of the story, however, have felt fortable wh g the characters’ relatnship as evince of gay glorifitn ancient Greek lerature and culture. Even though the available historil sourc clearly dite that the Greek kg had different female lovers each night, he is nsired the most famo gay man of antiquy, simply bee a screenwrer Hollywood imaged him as one. But how did we end up wh the false misnceptns about ancient Greek society and homosexualy?
The whole thg officially opened up by Kenh Dover’s work Greek Homosexualy 1978. Sce then, as MacDowell pots out, homosexualy ancient Greece “has been discsed a good al, maly om a soclogil and anthropologil pot of view.