From: rja.carnegie@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this
To: alt.battlestar-galactica,
Michael Gibbs wrote:
> John Shocked wrote:
> > wrote in message news:1128940908.9
6464.250490@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >>John Shocked wrote:
> >>
> >>> wrote in message news:1128609386.
34113.15130@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> >>>
> >>>>John Shocked wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> wrote in message news:112826110
.079206.255170@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>John Shocked wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Much of what has been written about the ancient greek period
developed during the
> >>>>>>>later Roman period after the Romans enslaved the greeks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>And much not.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Such as ?
> >>>>
> >>>>I should educate you? But their drama, for a start.
> >>>
> >>>Are you claiming that there is Sodomy in Greek written drama ?
> >>
> >>No. I don't know how much "Sodomy" is in ancient Greek written drama.
> >>Why did you think I was talking specifically about sodomy? (To
> >>audience: that's a joke.) I mean that pre-Roman Greek drama survives
> >>in written form, although there's a lot that didn't.
> >>There also is quite a lot of homosexual ancient Greek verse available.
> >
> >
> > Which poems of which poets in particular ?
> >
> > Politics
> >
> >
> >
>
> The link below is a good start. Homer used homosexuality in his poems,
> a great many Greek myths had homosexuality in them, just look at
> Achilles as an example. Remember that the Greeks did not differentiate
> between same sex or different sex relationships. TO them it was all the
> same, love. One could say Jesus agreed with that, since your references
> to it being a sin are based on the old testament, which Jesus reworked
> into his own message, with is love EVERYONE no matter what or who they
> are, and if they take the lord in their hearts, each and EVERY one of
> them will go to heaven. Each thing I read from you seems to point to
> the fact that you didn't seem to bother reading or understanding the
> second half of that holy book of yours. Read it, understand it, and
> then get back to us.
>
> http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Anthology - although I have trouble
demonstrating how much of this material might be solidly pre-Roman, at
least if I'm only using Wikipedia.
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