Ancient Greece and Homosexuality
Title: Ancient Greece and Homosexuality
Category: /History/European History
Details: Words: 586 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ancient Greece and Homosexuality
Category: /History/European History
Details: Words: 586 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
ANCIENT GREECE
The Ancient Greeks were totally open with homosexuality. Ancient Greeks believed that the relationship between a man and a boy was the most pure form of love that existed. In addition, the word, "lesbian" comes from the island of Eastern Greece, Lesbos. This is also the birthplace of Sappho (lived during 600 BC). She was priestess of a feminine love cult and celebrated the love of women for women in poems and other writings.
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his good friend Hulas had a relationship. When the nymph, Dryope, kidnapped Hylas, Hercules went mad. He went around pulling up entire trees and killing everything in sight. Jason feared for himself, his Argonaughts, and the Argo itself so he had to persuade Hercules to get away. Hercules never did see Hylas again.
Another is the story Hermaphroditus (who was born a male, was then united with a nymph, and therefore became half-male and half-female).