Right now I am listening to an interview of Ammon Hillman and an obnoxious interviewer. I feel like many people will get a completely wrong impression about ancient Greek/Roman society and culture from the interview. For example just because "Greek/Roman Paganism" has a Pantheon of Gods and Bacchus is part of it, doesn't mean it was automatically 100% approved, universally tolerated and "good" to worship him. Because the Cult of Bacchus was actually persecuted by the Romans. No, they didn't actually approve of crazy drug-fueled orgies. Just like how they too persecuted the Cult of Cybele. They didn't approve if all boys castrated themselves to become a Galloi. Or the fact that the temple of Aphrodite was basically a brothel. It's more like they called they brothels "temple of Aphrodite" than the other way around and worshipping whores like they are holy women.This is a very fundamental aspect of Pagan cultures. They depicted reality. How things are, not how they ought to be. They were beyond good and evil in a Nietzschean sense. Heroes were good men. But what they meant by good was noble, strong, competent, etc. Heroes are men of excellent quality. They didn't have this rigid Jewish thinking. Of rejecting everything outside of it and approving of everything inside them. Your daughter joining a temple of Aphrodite wouldn't necessarily make you a proud father, just because Aphrodite is an official part of the Pantheon and her temples aren't burned down. Conquering armies would sometimes force the women of a conquered city to all join the temple of Aphrodite. It's just another way of saying they were turned into whores or sex-slaves.But people automatically think "dude, the Pagans must have approved of all of this". No. They just described reality. They just depicted what was actually happening.
>>18490661>depictedWho is depicting things? Are you saying depict rather than worship? Or were these temples keeping records that I'm unaware of?
