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	The Ultimate Ancient Greece - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Ancient Greece is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of Western Civilization.
		Ancient Greek civilization has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe and again during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and The Americas.
		As Greece recovered economically, its population grew beyond the capacity of its limited arable land, and from about 750 BC the Greeks began 250 years of expansion, settling colonies in all directions.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Ancient_Greece (3017 words)

	Ancient Greece Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Greek school books, "ancient times" is a period of about 900 years, from the catastrophe of Mycenae until the conquest of the country by the Romans, divided into four periods based on styles of art and culture and politics.
		The history of Ancient Greece is often taken to end with the reign of Alexander the Great, who died in 323 BC.
		Population grew beyond the capacity of its limited arable land (according to Mogens Herman Hansen, the population of Ancient Greece increased by a factor larger than ten during the period from 800 BC to 400 BC, increasing from a population of 800,000 to a total estimated population of 10 to 13 million).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ancient_Greece (5209 words)

	Homosexuality in ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ancient Greeks made efforts to establish a clear age difference between Patroclus and Achilles, since they were uncomfortable with any perception of them as adult equals.
		The ancient Greeks, in the context of the pederastic city-states, were the first to describe, study, systematize, and establish pederasty as an institution.
		Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece by William A. Percy, III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece (1022 words)

	Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When the topic of homosexuality in the militaries of Ancient Greece is discussed, the Sacred Band of Thebes is usually considered as the prime example of how the Ancient Greeks used homoerotic/homosexual relationships between soldiers in a troop to boost the fighting spirit of their militaries(although Plutarch ridiculed this as a hoax in his Lives).
		From a modern standpoint, it is worthwhile to contrast these ancient attitudes towards homosexuality in the military with present-day attitudes and policies in the United States (Don't ask, don't tell).
		Homosexuality among males in the militaries and warriors of ancient Greek city-states were documented by a few historians throughout the ages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece (1539 words)

	Homosexuality in Ancient Greece - ReligionFacts
		Greek homosexual practices involved beautiful expressions of love and devotion, but were also firmly embedded in their culture of social status and therefore had distinct limitations.
		The form of homosexuality that was most common in ancient Greece was pederasty, meaning a relationship between an adult man and a male youth.
		In ancient Greece, same-sex romantic and sexual attractions were often regarded as a matter of taste or preferance rather than a moral issue.
	www.religionfacts.com /homosexuality/ancient_greeks.htm (1458 words)

	Mike Rundle: Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
		It was very much common in ancient greece for a man to be bisexual not as a common for a women to bisexual.
		Sine in ancient greece women did not have any rights they were passed from their father to their husband and the father gave a dowry to the husband to take the woman.
		Sappho was an ancient greek poetess and alot of individuals associate her with being lezbian but i truly believe she just expressed the beauty of the girls she teached.
	phark.typepad.com /phark/2004/03/homosexuality_i.html (5764 words)

	Annals of Homosexuality: From Greek to Grim to Gay
		In ancient Greece, homosexuality was philosophically praised and institutionally sanctioned, associated with virtues of courage and mentorship.
		In Japan, for example, before the mid-19th-century Western influence, homosexuality was “an honored way of life among the country’s religious and military leaders so that its acceptance paralleled, and in some respects even surpassed, ancient Athens.” It was common among Buddhist sages, part of samurai culture and an accepted aspect of the Kabuki theater world.
		Homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, for example, involved pederasty, and in Rome, slavery.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/usnews090.htm (940 words)

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		Although this study is concerned with helping to dispel the myth regarding homosexuality in ancient Greece, a few words about the severe damage being caused by the feminization of the White man are in order.
		They made the White men engage in homosexual acts, the women to have sex with each other and with the white men before shooting them, and then ran over their bodies with one of the vehicles they were driving.
		Those vase paintings that do show overt homosexual scenes comprise such an insignificant percentage of the total (something like 50 out of thousands), that one is perfectly justified in wondering just what the real purpose is that lies behind the extrapolation of this minute percentage into the absurd charge that they represent the norm.
	100777.com /digest/newsletter12.txt (6070 words)

	Homosexuality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		For example, the first ecumenical council to condemn homosexual sex, Lateran III of 1179, stated that “Whoever shall be found to have committed that incontinence which is against nature” shall be punished, the severity of which depended upon whether the transgressor was a cleric or layperson (quoted in Boswell, 1980, 277).
		In ancient Greece the gender of one's partner(s) was not important, but instead whether one took the active or passive role.
		The assumption in ancient Greece is that men (less is known about women) can respond erotically to either sex, and the vast majority of men who engaged in same-sex relationships were also married (or would later become married).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/homosexuality (6592 words)

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		Ancient Greece had unofficial and unwritten rules enforcing decorous behavior at dromoi or in gymnasia and especially for relationships that at times started there, much as modern society has rules for how teenage sons of socialites must "court and spark" their romantic interests.
		Homosexual oral sex found expression among barbaric tribes in the wooded mountainous wilds to the north of Greece, seldom in pedagogical pederastic relationships.
		Its contributions to western civilization are innumerable: philosophy, democracy, art and architecture, music, drama, poetry, medicine, science, mathematics and geometry and astronomy, history, private property, the raising and ennobling of the human condition to one of a private person, and on and on and on.
	www.truthtree.com /pederasty.shtml (5939 words)

	Androphile Gay History Project: The World History of Male Love
		From the city states of ancient Greece and Rome with its emperors (Trajan and Hadrian among others), to the Siberian shamans and Native American two-spirit medicine men, from the African tribesmen to Chinese emperors and scholars, people the world over understood and made space for men's vulnerability to the beauty of other males.
		In Ancient Greece love between males was in many ways analogous to the marriages of the time, seen as equally important in the life of the individual, and enshrined in Greek mythology.
		Greece, of course, was no Utopia: prostitution and rape, often attended by slavery, were common.
	www.androphile.org (1033 words)

	Greek homosexuality
		In ancient Greece, this was a normal practice.
		In ancient Greece, there never was a word to describe homosexual practices: they were simply part of aphrodisia, love, which included men and women alike.
		In this scholarly reconstruction of ancient sexual behavior, the older lover is presented as some sort of substitute father: he is there to help his beloved one on his way to manhood and maturity, and to initiate him in the customs of grown-up people.
	www.livius.org /ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html (2339 words)

	Mad about the boy \| Review \| guardian.co.uk Books
		It was this notion that allowed Ganymede, ancient mascot for the vice unmentionable among Christians, to appear on the doors of St Peter's in Rome, where, amazingly, he remains, or as the emblem of "piety" in Christian picture-books.
		Perhaps this is how Greek homosexuality started, he said, with primitive tribes like the Dorians (cultural ancestors of the Spartans) in the second millennium BC using buggery to transmit manly essence into the younger members of the tribe, a quasi-magical ritual.
		Athenian homosexuality, with all its highly patterned practices, was suddenly threatened with a highly visible doppelganger, which replaced the discourse of "admirers", "beloveds" and "gracious favouring" with a world of clients, contracts, prices and tricks.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,2208343,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10 (3381 words)

	Is Homosexuality Genetic? Ask the Ancient Greeks - News Bloggers
		Homosexuality was widespread in ancient Greece and Rome.
		Arguing that homosexuality cannot be genetically inherited because a society once practiced homosexuality as a social norm demonstrates a remarkably flawed and irresponsible misapplication of logical reasoning.
		Homosexuals are alive and well in Greece and Italy today, and the number of homosexuals occur in the same ratio and percentages as they occur in every other society.
	news.aol.com /newsbloggers/2007/06/28/is-homosexuality-genetic-ask-the-ancient-greeks (1928 words)

	People With a History: Paul Halsall: Homosexual Eros in Early Greece (1986)
		Homosexual eros was valued in art, in philosophy, in heroic couples and as part of a boys education.
		Homosexual affairs then would take place between men of comparable age and some of them lasted many years - Agathon with his lover in the Symposium, Socrates in his relationship with Alcibiades, who broke all the rules by chasing an older man, and the couples in Thebes' army are all testimony to homosexual 'marriages'.
		Once one accepts that homosexual eros was not exclusively aristocratic or confined to Athens it is clear that there was no reason for it to disappear until the destruction of cities in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/greekeros.html (5185 words)

	Ancient Greece \| Greece
		The Ancient Greeks - the Athenians of Ancient Greece.
		Ancient Greece, followed by the Roman Empire, was the first civilization to develop an orderly system of diplomacy.
		An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers, researchers said.
	www.addgr.com /ancient--greece.html (423 words)

	Debunking the Myth of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And it is here, in these departments, where the most infuriating lie of all -- that which posits the prevalence of homosexuality in ancient Greece -- was born.
		In order to remove any doubt whatsoever, he draws on such ancient luminaries as Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Diodorus Seculus, Euripides, Homer, Lysias, Plato, Plutarch and Xenophon, all of whom have left a written record as to what the prevailing norms were concerning this behavior.
		The Eromenos was in all cases a beardless youth who looked up to and respected his mentor, and who had been commissioned by the boy's parents to take on the vital chore of preparing him to assume the roles of husband, father, soldier, and active citizen in the affairs of his community.
	www.grecoreport.com /debunking_the_myth_of_homosexuality_in_ancient_greece.htm (978 words)

	Androphilia - TheBestLinks.com - Female, Greek, Ancient Greece, Homosexuality, ...
		In the context of male homosexuality, androphilia is the mutual attraction of adult men.
		In ancient Greece, androphilic relationships were rare, as the overriding taboo was against a man assuming a passive sexual position with a social equal or inferior.
		The Greek ideal of pederasty remained the dominant conception of homosexuality until the twentieth century.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Androphilia.html (214 words)

	Homosexuality and Religion - ReligionFacts
		Homosexuality is generally defined as sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex.
		Homosexuality was not uncommon in ancient cultures, though the forms and views of homosexual behavior vary significantly.
		Hinduism and Buddhism tend to view homosexuality primarily from the standpoint of its karmic effects, with varying conclusions.
	www.religionfacts.com /homosexuality/index.htm (192 words)

	Homosexuality in History
		The Greek military attitude toward homosexuality was that it brought a sense of comradeship.
		Homosexual history is one of abuse, prejudice, pain, and death.
		homosexuality is an alternative, since they believe they have no choice in their sexual preference.
	hometown.aol.com /GraceEACA/chapter2.html (3129 words)

	Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
		Here in the twenty-first century, it is the most common belief that homosexuality in Ancient Greece was limited to the older, married man (teacher) and the young boy (student).
		For although homosexuality was a current practice in ancient Greece, the Dorians alone held it to be "the closest intimate relationship that can exist between two comrades of the same sex.
		The Ancient Greeks understood that homosexuality was then, as it is now, simply a matter of the nature of some men.
	www.15grant.com /mchoward/greece.html (916 words)

	Brokeback Mountain and the "Gay Agenda" - Page 9 - Sean Hannity Discussion
		So, basically, homosexuality, under your model, cannot be held as immoral, because it does not endanger society, which by all indications is your standard of value.
		When homosexuals give in to their temptation to engage in deviant behavior, this does not represent striving to be better than the underlying impulses.
		First, you say that homosexuality is immoral because it is a danger to society; you then say that it is a danger to society because it undermines our morals; and it is immoral because it is a danger to society.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1191763#post1191763 (3866 words)

	Thrown Back
		Since homosexuality is at the very core of what it means to be civlilized, it shouldn't surprise us to learn that homosexuals had things just peachy before that horrible old Christianity came on the scene; until just a few decades or so ago, when we finally began shaking those Christian bugaboos off our enlightened intellects.
		But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward beauty, he banned the connexion as an abomination; and thus he caused lovers to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each other.
		Homosexuals were not, as many believed, openly accepted by society.
	www.thrownback.blogspot.com /2003_12_14_thrownback_archive.html (1869 words)

	Ancient Greece
		Sculptors in ancient Greece excelled in representing the human form, such as the Venus de Milo statue from the Hellenistic period.
		Ancient Greece, otherwise known as the Archaic period 650450 BC, was a time of great development for Greece.
		Ancient Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
	directessays.com /essay_search/Ancient_Greece.html (695 words)

	Discovery Health :: Homosexuality
		Homosexuality in Western popular thought over the course of the 20th century has generally referred to sexual acts between individuals of the same sex.
		According to this social constructivist perspective, homosexuality per se did not exist in ancient Greece or various other indigenous societies in which same-sex behaviors of one sort or another reportedly occurred.
		Indeed, the ancient Greeks did not even have an equivalent for the terms "homosexual" or "heterosexual," although same-sex sexual behavior was not only practiced but extolled.
	health.discovery.com /centers/sex/sexpedia/homosexuality.html (415 words)

	Saint Aelred the Queer: The Surprising History of Homosexuality and Homophobia
		The ancients did not view gender as a determining factor of who should love or be married to who; the qualifications related solely to matters of age and biological relationship (incest).
		Homosexuality among the Greeks has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly study over the years, with the result that it is widely accepted among the American public that it was common.
		Because homosexuality became associated with hyenas, an animal believed to rob graves and eat the corpses, it's not surprising that early church fathers and monastics held homosexuality itself to be repugnant since it was associated with such repugnant animals.
	www.bidstrup.com /phobiahistory.htm (5915 words)

	Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A review of a much-needed book that exposes the myth, the people who are behind the myth, and the political purposes that are served by the promotion of the myth which says that homosexuality was part of the cultural norm in ancient Greece.
		Exaggerating the role of homosexuality in ancient Greece is just another weapon in the arsenal of the establishment elites designed to make Johnny feel "mainstream" about his being less than a man.
		The cruelties inflicted upon the slaves of ancient Rome, the humbling indignities suffered by the slaves of the American South, the horrific and degraded conditions of the serfs of Czarist Russia, and the torture and mutilation that slave-owning Blacks inflicted upon their fellow Blacks in Africa, were completely unknown to the Greeks.
	www.grecoreport.com /human_relationships.htm (641 words)

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