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| | The Biblical Source of Western Sexual Morality |
 | | Greek culture and the 'Greek mind' is popularly associated with the Apollonian, that is, with reason, order, balance, and decorum; Greece is not commonly associated with the Dionysian, with passion and chaos. |
 | | Greek mythology, no less than the mythology of ancient Babylon, was populated by promiscuous gods who copulated constantly not only with one another but also with humans.[35] There is the scene in Book VIII of the Odyssey, for example, in which Mars makes a cuckold of Vulcan. |
 | | Such was the connection of choas and civic religion in the Greek polis.[63] Moreover, homosexuality served the purposes of mysticism, freeing the contemplative from the limitations and particularity of his sexual identity. |
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