Was Alexanr the Great Gay? The Actual Answer - Malev

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Explore the trigug qutn of whether Alexanr the Great was gay and disver the evince for both sis regardg Alexanr the Great's homosexualy.

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ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?

The Importance of Evince the Heated Debate on Homosexualy Ancient Egypt. Roman Law and the Banng of ‘Passive’ Homosexualy. At the same time, Ancient Greek ary forc (for example, the Spartans), believed that homosexual sex ma bonds between the soldiers stronger.

WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER

Like huntg, homosexualy was thought to foster mascule, pecially martial, bravery. Homosexualy was a norm the ancient tim, but the se of Alexanr the Great and Hephatn, is hard to ratnally nclu what the te relatnship was between them. Even if they were lovers, the beliefs and perceptns about homosexual relatnships was fely different than the way is nsired today.

A THIRD 300 MOVIE WAS PASSED ON AFTER IT BEME A GAY LOVE STORY

It seems to me that there are three pecially tertg aspects of this whole Alexanr-Hephatn first has to do wh the cultural norms surroundg homosexualy ancient Greece, specifilly the royal urt of send aspect, which is related to the first, is the fact that Alexanr's ntemporary bgraphers never explicly referred to the pair as lovers. Below, I'll explore all three of the areas and nclu wh a theory of my #1: Ancient Macedon and homosexualyThis paper by Pennsylvania State Universy profsor Jeanne Ream, tled "An atypil affair?

Sir Kenh Dover's reful analysis of this kd of same-sex affair morn tim led to the popularizatn of the "Dover mol" for unrstandg ancient Greek homosexualy.

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