Plato Do Colorado: Were the Ancient Greeks Morn Gays? - Crisis Magaze

Contents:

• WAS PLATO THE ONLY GREEK GAY?
• PLATO DO COLORADO: WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS MORN GAYS?
• WAS PLATO GAY? AND SOCRAT? WHO UNRSTANDS PHILOSOPHY….?

WAS PLATO THE ONLY GREEK GAY?

In the current ntroversi over homosexualy and gay rights, much attentn has been voted to the example of ancient Greece. However, a vague imprsn also exists that, prr to s reprsn by Christiany, homosexualy enjoyed an untroubled, even honored, place classil tim, particularly Athens.

PLATO DO COLORADO: WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS MORN GAYS?

For the purpose of ntemporary polemics, Athenian achievements polics, art, and philosophy have been voked as powerful proof that public acceptance of homosexualy, far om ditg a cle our civilizatn, might actually promise humanistic renewal. The ancient Athenians celebrated homosexualy, and Athens, spe slavery and phallocracy, was one of the tly great human muni.

WAS PLATO GAY? AND SOCRAT? WHO UNRSTANDS PHILOSOPHY….?

For example, the fall of 1993, distguished historians of ancient Greece and ement moral philosophers appeared a su brought by var dividuals (cludg celebri like Marta Navratilova) agast the state of Colorado for s nstutnal amendment which overturned municipal gay-rights ordanc. At stake was the qutn of whether legal rtrictns on homosexual nduct rt on a ratnal basis or, rather, are the product of mere prejudice or Christian theology, particularly, as Nsbm’s affidav put , “of a philosophil and moral tradn associated wh one branch of Christiany: Roman Catholicism.

Neverthels, appears that when we ligate over homosexualy now, the nam of Socrat, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and Demosthen may bee — if not as mon our mouths as hoehold words — almost as mon as referenc to Ksey, He, and Masters and Johnson.