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“Solon's law forbidding slaves to "have a boy lover" was done not to protect the child but to keep all the hot young boys for himself”
Plutarch did not say that but thank you for your dishonest and immoral input!
“The two men were at first great friends, party because they were related and partly because of the youthful good looks of Pisistratus, to whom, according to some writers, Solon was passionately devoted. This may very well be the reason why at a later date, when they took opposite sides in politics, their antagonism never carried with it any harsh or vindictive feelings; on the contrary their earlier attachment still lingered in their hearts and kept alive the cherished memory of their affection”
Sorry, but I did not pick up anything in your excerpt or in the full quote that accused anyone of “analy raping children”--LOL!! The paragraph is from Plutarch who wrote 600 years later in ADMIRATION of a world hero and in praise of “great friends”.
Euripides (the amazingly great playwright--one of the three greatest) says: “The embers of Zeus's flaming thunderbolt Still glowing”
Do you know what that means?! Of course not. But why do you use Euripides to discredit the Greek culture? After all…his love for AGATHON hardly supports your judgemental morality! But of course a lout such as you has never read Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides! Genesis and Joshua are a belly full for you!! ;-)
So in the entire biography by Plutarch (which he wrote about 600 years after the fact) you find absolutely nothing to say against one of the Seven Sages of Greece and the Father of Western Democracy and culture! And the amusing thing is that you are arguing to make a point which only discredits you! Because nobody condemns homosexuality in Greek culture and only bigots condemn it in ours! The moral code of the ancient Greeks from Socrates to Euripides and beyond honoured same sex relationships. It is true that Euripides abused the morality of his culture by staying in love past adolescence which was unseemly and made him the brunt of some mockery but what the Hell--nobody is perfect!
In our culture, that would have been hunky dory. HA!
"All this is what you would have us believe to be "an honourable and dignified practise"."
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I have no idea whose quote that is--mine or anothers--or what it refers to. Only because, (as you have thrown it naked on the page), it gives no clue. Was it in a book I wrote? A post? Satire? Humour?
So I am still wondering about your fascination for Greek culture and your personalizing of the lives of the great men who stand for our civilization and culture today. Is it only Solon you hate? Do you also hate Euripides and Socrates? Do you hate all the great Gay and Lesbian people who have ever lived and contributed to the world?? Or do you just hate Solon?
You know that the love of adolescents was a core defining of their culture? So why do you personalise it? Do you really think the plays of Euripides are worthless and completely without merit simply because he followed his culture and his heart. I mean--think about it. These people were like giants to a greg oree insect such as you are. Do you really think your spineless blubbering and your asinine hatred means anything to anyone? These people live on in our lives 2-3 millennia after the fact!
You? A nobody! A Fluffy Mouthpiece! For no more than a few years will any remember you. Maybe some kids remembering a strange fishing trip in the middle of the night! Hmmmm! Not much else. And in those few years nobody in the world will talk over a beer saying what a great statesmen or lawgiver or playwright you were! Nobody will call you a SAGE!! And nobody will choose a username on a bulletin board after you! WHY WOULD THEY!!
You are the only person I have ever met you thinks that homosexuality and heterosexuality are praiseworthy qualities in and of themself! You gotta be a fruitcake!
Listen, Sport. I don't know if you are a closet queer or not. That is not condemnatory. So take a breath and relax. But I can guarantee you that if you had lived in Classical Greece--you would have been a Drama Queen going after all the guys with beards! I think you have made that pretty clear on these boards! Your hatred of people who lived 2500 years ago is not normal and it is not healthy. It is reaction formation and it reveals who you are. You are an open book to me and to others. A very short and unimportant book but a very open one...
LOL!!
