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	Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
		The modern word in the English language that is rooted in this ancient Greek word is pederasty.
		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.
	www.15grant.com /mchoward/greece.html (916 words)

	Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
		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.
		Epaminondas who is considered the greatest warrior-statesmen of ancient Greece by many such as the Roman historian Diodorus Siculus had two male lovers.
		Homosexuality among males in the militaries and warriors of ancient Greek city-states were documented by many historians throughout the ages.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Homosexuality-in-the-militaries-of-ancient-Greece.htm (1568 words)

	People with a History/CLGH Book Review: Cashman Kerr Prince: Review of Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece
		As such, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Ancient Greece is less a critical and scholarly history than a recapitulation of ancient hearsay on the subject.
		If pederasty represented a very ancient practice brought to the peninsula by preliterate proto-Greeks, it is hard to understand why each region would have felt obliged at a later date to name a local founder of the custom.
		I believe that though it involved ritual abduction and perhaps even theoretical rape as well, the Cretan system was relatively recent and that the dramatic myths of local founders of pederasty reflected the Cretan model and not some ancient prototype.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/CLGH/CLGH1997-11-2-3prince.html (907 words)

	Pederasty and Homosexuality
		Pederasty is inseparable from the high points of Western culture - ancient Greece and the Renaissance.
		Especially in ancient Greece, most of the military leaders, artists, and thinkers would have had to be 'psychic hermaphrodites.'"
		Pederasty - that is, love between a man and a youth of 12 to 18 years of age - say middle-class homosexuals, lesbians, and feminists, has nothing to do with gay liberation.
	216.220.97.17 /pederasty.htm (3072 words)

	Same-Sex Desire and Love in ... Antiquity ...
		The Dispersion of Pederasty and the Athletic Revolution in Sixth-Century BC Greece (Thomas Scanlon)
		The empirical data show that pederasty is not only not predestined to injure, but can benefit the adolescent when practiced according to the ancient Greek form.
		Dorian Crete and Thebes are conventionally seen by ancient sources as the originators of pederasty; modern historians see support for this view in Dorian male-centered militarism and sexual segregation in upbringing.
	www.ipce.info /library_3/files/antiquity.htm (2509 words)

	MikeBuss.htm
		While this likely seems strange to a society where the majority of men find it repulsive to think of another man as beautiful, and where until recently homosexuals and bisexuals were looked down upon as being inferior, it was actually quite common and accepted in the ancient world of Greece.
		The case revolves around two men fighting over a younger boy, but never assigns any dishonor to either of the men for chasing the boy, and actually rule in favor of the old man even though he is married.12 Of course, each city-state was different, clearly reflected sexual norms in Greece as a whole.
		Only when it was not pursued honorably according to laws and customs was pederasty frowned upon.
	www.stfrancis.edu /en/marzec/loq01/MikeBuss.htm (2179 words)

	Graduate Student Profile - Andrew Lear(Classics)
		In ancient Greece, pederasty "was a broadly practiced custom for over 1,000 years," says Andrew Lear, who is earning his doctoral degree in the Department of Classics.
		This is the core of Andrew's dissertation, "Noble Eros: The Idealization of Pederasty From the Greek Dark Ages to the Athens of Socrates." While the subject of vases—specifically the Grecian vessels designed for serving and drinking wine—will take only one chapter in the dissertation, it is a key part of his overall research project.
		Because of its context in modern society, "people tend to write about pederasty as if it were one thing, as if it had an ethos," he says.
	www.gdnet.ucla.edu /asis/profile/clas.htm (905 words)

	People with a History: History of Homosexuality Bibliography
		Fisher, Saul H., "A Note on Male Homosexuality and the Role of Women in Ancient Greece", in Judd Marmor, ed.
		Stehle, Eva, Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
		Eclectic selection of sources and commentators covering Greece, Christianity, the middle ages and the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.fordham.edu /HALSALL/pwh/gayhistbib.html (905 words)

	Pederasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Ancient Greece, pederasty was an integral part of the mentoring of an adolescent (catamite) by an adult.
		Pederasty is the sexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescing boy or a young man (corresponding to an age of about 12 to 20).
		In Roman times, pederasty lost its status as a vital part of education and was instead recognized as an activity primarily driven by one's sexual desires.
	www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Pederasty.php (912 words)

	The Role of Pederasty Throughout Ancient Greece.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "The Role of Pederasty Throughout Ancient Greece.".
		Pederasty played a vital role in improving social status, although improving social status was not a major reason for pederasty.
		Another important regulation in the usage of pederasty was that no man was to have relations with a boy that has not yet reached puberty.
	www.coursework.info /i/60235.html (801 words)

	sympos
		this is not to say that pederasty was the only expression of same-sex relations in ancient Greece; indeed Pausanias--whom Plato (in the Symposium) has defend long-term same-sex partnerships between adults--was known to have had a lengthy relationship with Agathon.
		the Greeks conceived of the asymmetricality not in terms of the gender of the partners (male-female), but in terms of active and passive roles; hence pederasty refers to an asymmetrical relation between an older and active partner(the lover/erastes;) and a younger, passive partner (the beloved/eromenos);
		Such relations were, however, suspect at best because of the passivity that would necessarily be involved.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classic/wilson/core/sympos1.htm (374 words)

	Greek homosexuality
		The historical approach: scholars are looking for the (hypothetical) roots of pederasty in very ancient initiation rites and try to reconstruct a development.
		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.
		And it is true: the Jewish and Christian attitudes and obsessions have never played a role in the sexual lives of the ancient Greeks.
	www.livius.org /ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html (2339 words)

	Annals of Homosexuality: From Greek to Grim to Gay
		Homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, for example, involved pederasty, and in Rome, slavery.
		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.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/usnews090.htm (940 words)

	pedo.html
		"Pederast" comes from the Ancient Greek word paiderastia which means literally "boylove" and a paiderastes was a "boylover." In Ancient Greece, pederasty was the socially accepted pedagogoical eros between an adult male and a boy between the ages of 12 and 18.
		Thus, the words "pederast" and "pedophile" are transliterations of Greek words into English, which depending on who's using the words and who's hearing them, may or may not carry their original meanings.
		Pederast would be a far better term to label boylovers.
	www.daretospeak.net /paiderastia/pedo.html (457 words)

	Homosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In ancient Greece, on the other hand, Greek religion consecrated it, as in the case of the love between Zeus and Ganymede and other such myths.
		This was in response to criticism from American conservative groups which objected to the discussion of positive aspects of classical pederasty, as well as to a chapter by the American academic Bruce Rind which was branded by the critics as advocating pedophilia.
		Homosexuality since ancient times has been documented to be more common in militaries with their generally strict sex segregation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality (7288 words)

	Sparta Bibliography
		Cartledge, Paul, The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse (Overlook Press 2003).
		Cartledge, Paul, "The Politics of Spartan Pederasty," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 27 (1981) 17-36.
		Ehrenberg, Viktor, "Der Damos im archaischen Sparta," Hermes 68 (1933) 288-305.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/spartbib.html (7288 words)

	Extracts from Egypt, Greece and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman (Pub. 1999) - Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage
		As a surviving vase painting showing the victory of the Greeks over the Persians at the battle of Eurymedon (early 460s BC) suggest, one of the rights of a victor was to inflict sexual humiliation on those he had defeated.
		For a greek male to accept the submissive role in a homosexual relationship, or to be paid for this role, was considered so degrading that, in Athens at least, it resulted in the loss of citizen rights.
		For the older man pederasty always to have ceased with marriage, and older lovers were simply seen as ridiculous.
	lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /books/egypt_greece_rome.html (9189 words)

	Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lelantine Wars and introduced pederasty to the area
		Cimon - leader of the Delian League forces and the Athenian navy, gained notoriety in the Persian Wars
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece (9189 words)

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