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Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: The Myth is Collapsing by Adonis Ath. Georgiades is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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It is not in the purpose of this research to take a position in favour of, or against homosexuality, but to find out ancient Greeks' own views on the issue. I believe that the idea that Greeks were, so to speak, much more toler­ant as far as homosexuality is concerned and that it was not only ac­cepted by but almost imperative to every educated Greek is deliberate­ly diffused. There is no doubt in the context of the New Age we live in, where every­thing is being trivialized, this diffusion is neither innocent nor acci­dental, but maintained by those who use the authority of our classical civilization to corroborate their own views. To sustain my fundamen­tal point of view, that homosexuality was never accepted by Greeks, I followed the only reliable method I could think of, the only one signifi­cant to the objective searcher regardless of what Dover, Siamakis or anybody else says, extensive reference to ancient texts. In any case, all the relevant extracts from the ancient Greek texts are quoted both in the original and in the English translation. But how was homosexuality treated then? It was treated in a particu­larly negative way, as you will find out through this book. -From th

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Author

Adonis Ath. Georgiades

Publisher

Georgiades Publishing

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9789603162353

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities