Plutarch, our main source for the Sacred Band of Thebes, who by the way are extremely marginalized in Xenophon's account of that conflict, refers to them as matched pairs of ἐραστής and ἐρώμενος, "lover" and "beloved" respectively. I'm happy to comment on the Greek, as an actual classicist and scholar of ancient Greek literature. I always read primary sources like the time I read about about the French Revolution especially the book of the same title by British Historian Nesta Webster. Where are these western scholars? How come they don't go to Russia and do some research? Because if the Russian works were translated into English no one buy books written by crappy western historians.
The archives exist, some Russian historians have written books about this chapter of their history. Their economy under Czar Nicholas was booming, reforms were being introduced, huge surplus crops were produced, factories boomed, economically Russia was rocking and rolling but we are continuously fed Marxist tripe that the country was totally backward. And again I repeat homosexuality was never accepted in ancient Greece. They all go to universities through the front door, and then come out the back end on the conveyer belt of indoctrination. As for the more modern scholars and classicists they are some of the biggest s that I have ever seen. He talks about history being a type of freemasonry in his video searching for the truth in history.
I remember how everyone turned on British historian David Irving when some of his books were published. Supposed real scholars and historians are out to either make a name for themselves or their closed masonic fraternities refuse to hear someone with a true picture of history.
As one British historian(who's name escapes me)said some years ago -We have stigmatised a whole civilisation with homosexuality when there is such little evidence for it. Achilles and Patroclus were so supposed to be lovers and in the original texts they are shown to be heterosexual.Įpaminondas and Pelopidas were good friends and not lovers as is claimed by modern scholarly circles(a title they don't deserve).Epaminondas saved the life of Pelopidas during one clash and that's why thy became close friends. These fairy tales surfaced in the Renaissance and also during the age of enlightenment. In the depths of Asia we a supposed to believe the evidence from thirty vases and so called scholars who push this homosexual agenda. If homosexuality was so prevalent in ancient Greek society like we are lead to believe, how come there was a huge population explosion? You mean to tell me that from Massilia to Emporium to southern Italy including Sicily, Cyrene, Alexandria, Greece, Asia Minor, the Black sea to Alexandria in the farthest The constitution of the Lacedemonians by Lycurgus and also the constitution of the Athenians by Solon(both totally ignored by historians) still exist which both clearly state that homosexuality is punishable by death.
Out of a total of eighty thousand vases that were found in Attica alone by archaeologists only thirty depicted homosexual acts. You weren't allowed to serve in the military, in the priesthood, all public debates and decision making, serving in government, public festivals, and you were not allowed to go near temples because they would be defiled raising the local city state population to much anger and hatred. In ancient Greece Homosexuality was punishable by death.