Was Alexanr the Great Gay? The Actual Answer - Malev

Contents:

• ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
• A THIRD 300 MOVIE WAS PASSED ON AFTER IT BEME A GAY LOVE STORY

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. 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.

WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER

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?

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

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. Given the ntext, Ream ultimately nclus that the relatnship between Alexanr and Hephatn was not "atypil":"Th, given the evince for same-age homoerotic affairs Macedonian and the weight of circumstantial ttimony - even if vlat Dover's mol - I do thk que possible that Alexanr and Hephatn were physilly timate at some pot.