>>15604863>I wonder WHO could be behind the greeks are gay narrativethe greeks..
>[The Persians'] luxurious practices are of all kinds, and all borrowed: the Greeks taught them pederasty.Herodotus 1.135
>In most of the Greek cities the laws do not oppose men’s desire for boys.Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2.14
>The lawgiver gave much thought to the benefits of moderation in eating and also to the isolation of women, so that they not have many children. To this end he devised intercourse with males.Aristotle, Politics 2.10, 1272a22–26
>The same lawgiver [Solon] said: ‘The slave is not to be the lover of a free boy, nor to pursue him, or else he is to receive fifty lashes with the public whip.’ But he did not prevent the free man from being a lover, from associating with or pursuing a boy, nor did he think that this brought harm to the boy, but saw it as a testimony to his self-control."Aeschines, Against Timarchos 138-9
>Love affairs were such an open and everyday matter that the great poet Aeschylus, and Sophocles too, put sexual themes on the stage in their tragedies, Aeschylus showing Achilles’ love for Patroclus. . . . And many men, overall, prefer love with boys to love with females. In the very cities of Greece that have the best laws by comparison with others, this is the mode of behavior that is fashionable.Athenaeus 13.601
