Talk:Sacred Band of Thebes/Archives/2018/April

Homosexuality in Ancient Greece is something that Greeks are not taught in Greek schools!

I just read about the Sacred Band of Thebes in a site and I was astonished since the Greek educational system is not considered political correct to teach modern Greeks about what was really the Theban Sacred Band, which consisted of soldiers gay lovers (see. section). In any case homosexuality and pedophilia (though I think he had another character with the meaning of the word we give today, for example, had an initiation character between the older and the younger lover) in ancient Greece it was commonly seen in literature and mythology e.g. Iolaus was Lover of Heracles, Ganymede of Jupiter, Patroclus of Achilles and Hephaestion of Alexander the Great (however o the article about Hephaestion the Greek wiki does not say a word about this love affair as opposed to the English wiki). Not to teach the truth in schools and universities about homosexuality in ancient Greece (and especially in ancient army) is scientifically unacceptable. Of course there were also the kinaidoi (or vataloi, i.e. the effeminate), but I think (like almost all ancient societies) homosexuality among men was not a taboo in ancient Greece, but something socially acceptable (there were known homosexuals as General Alcibiades), although I think the effeminate enjoyed less consideration. They are listed in many books eg Plato (Symposium etc.). Finally, I find unacceptable that in some forums some (especially Greeks) claim that the historians who refer to homosexuality of ancient Greeks themselves are homosexuals 79.167.114.131 (talk) 13:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC)