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[–] [deleted] 5 pts (edited )

I read Xenophon's Anabasis. There's definitely some man-boy shit going on in there. In fact, there was a disagreement between officers on who gets the boy. This doesn't mean Xenophon was OK with it, but it's there. This also doesn't mean that the officers duking it out over the boy was a homosex thing, but if I remember correctly it was fairly sus. I really wish I could find the passage.

Good topic.

EDIT: Found it...

pg 165 of 184

"Now there was a certain Olynthian, named Episthenes; he was a great lover of boys, and seeing a handsom lad, just in the bloom of youth, and carrying a light shield, about to be slain, he rain up to Xenophon and supplicated him to recuse the fair youth."

Episthenes has a company of boys in the military. His only requirement to join was that you were handsome.

[–] [deleted] 2 pts

The Bible talks about gays trying to fuck a couple guys, but it obviously isn't condoning it.

Are you saying that these greek writers condone sodomy?

Quite literally said that it doesn't mean that Xenophon was OK with it...

All you had to do was read. That's it.

[–] [deleted] -1 pt

You said "it doesn't mean that..." But it sure seems like you were trying to support the arguement that they condoned it.

So do you believe the Greeks largely condoned sodomy?