SOLON: "I am morally neutral on the subject of their pederasty."
LOL! Still trying to define young boys as men?
"The free and non-commercialized homosexual erotic relations between two males – a mature man and an underage boy or teenager, usually 7 to 20 years old – was legal, and was considered to be something noble; in fact, nobler than the normal and legal sexual relations between a man and a woman, while the profession of a homosexual was considered vulgar and disgraceful... Once, when Sophocles was in Chios island at an official banquet, he couldn’t contain himself and sexually attacked a young boy in front of all the guests, while the boy was serving wine to the guests. Another time, in Athens, as was the habit with the debauched, he led a young boy outside the walls of the city; a young boy who had also tasted the warped appetites of Euripides from time to time. After finishing their disgusting act, the boy-lover – who apparently had quite a bit of experience with tragic poets – grabbed Sophocles’ clothes and fled into the city, while the poet was forced to go home wearing the much smaller garments of the boy and make a total fool of himself in all the city. When Euripides heard of this incident, he commented maliciously that he had used the same boy in the past, as a lover (Ion Chios and Ieronymos Rodios to Athenaios (?e?p??s?f?sta?) (Deipnosofistes = Dinner sophists) 13, 82 (604def)).We have no indication as to whether Euripides or Sophocles were condemned according to the law (assuming there were such laws) against homosexuality. We wonder why? We will no doubt be informed, by the pro-gay, neo-paganists."
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