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Originally Posted by angrynight
Then there was a mocking of other Greeks as "boy lovers".
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I haven't seen this film, but it seems that the Athenians (was it the Athenians who said that?) did have similar derogatory expressions about the Spartans.* Not that they didn't enjoy the odd boy, themselves. Nationalist rhetoric...
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Originally Posted by Delvo
The homosexual and pedophiliac talk about ancient Greece is almost always pretty widely exaggerated and misstated. It's not that ancient Greece had no homosexuals or pedophiles, it's just that that was never the standard. (Biologically, it couldn't be. You can't talk someone into having a sexuality he doesn't have.)
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You are assuming that sexuality is 100% determined by biology. Comparative anthropology seems to show that it is partly social.
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The alleged sexual indulgence of Spartan pederasty was a running gag in the repertoire of Athenian comedians, and the verb lakōnízō ("to do it the Lacedaemonian way"; literally, "to laconize") took on the meaning of "to sodomize." It is not clear to what extent this is a reflection of the enmity between Athens and Sparta.
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