[lbo-talk] Greece, was Bar-bar-bar Barian

[Chris Doss]

Doesn't Juvenal in the Satires denounce the Greeks for homosexuality? Come to think of it, I can't think offhand of any positive depictions of homosexuality in Roman literature -- not that I am terribly conversant with it. It doesn't make any appearance in the Art of Love (or so I recollect), which you expect it would if it were a common, socially acceptable practice.

--- On Thu, 1/22/09, magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


> From: magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Greece, was Bar-bar-bar Barian
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 6:28 PM
> > What counted as "effete" among the Roman  
> aristocracy was a Hellenism marked (as with 
> Cicero's friend Atticus) by an *excessive* 
> fondness for boys.
> 
> Hadrian effete?  Rats.  Also, wasn't he too 
> considered an intellectual? (with fabulous 
> taste in boys).
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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