>mfw a lacedaemonian tries to justify his pederasty
>the first man of GreeceTruly patrician
>>18025886>Guys Greeks weren't all raging homosexuals, just the Spartans!
>>18025942T. Thracian
>>18025886The Spartans didn't write anything about themselves, so we don't know how they would justify pederasty. A lot of the historical testimony on Spartans concerning pederasty is contradictory, with Xenophon claiming they practiced a "chaste" form of pederasty, and other authors claiming otherwise. Albeit, they probably did have sex with young boys, like most other Greeks did. Read pic rel. for an in-depth essay on the topic.Epaminondas is attributed with establishing the Sacred Band of Thebes, a pederastic military unit:>But Hieronymus the Peripatetic says that the ancients were anxious to encourage the practice of having boy-favourites, because the vigorous disposition of youths, and the confidence engendered by their association with each other, has often led to the overthrow of tyrants. For in the presence of his favourite, a man would choose to do anything rather than to get the reputation of being a coward. And this was proved in practice in the case of the Sacred Band, as it was called, which was established at Thebes by Epaminondas.On Epaminondas' boyfriend:And Theopompus, in his treatise On the Treasures of which the Temple at Delphi was plundered, [605] says that "Asopichus, being a favourite of Epaminondas, had the trophy of Leuctra represented in relief on his shield, and that he encountered danger with extraordinary gallantry; and that this shield is consecrated at Delphi, in the portico."— Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists, Book 13Epaminondas buried with two boy concubines:>as the Boeotians, Lacedemonians, and Cretans. And among the most ancient heroes none were more amorous than Meleager, Achilles, Aristomenes, Cimon, and Epaminondas; the latter of which had for his male concubines Asopichus and Caphisodorus, who was slain with him at the battle of Mantinea and lies buried very near him.— Plutarch, Moralia, Of Love
>>18025886hmmmm
>>18026081Ancient Greeks will make groomers and troons jealous
