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Originally Posted by Far-L
With all due respect imo that is not really historically accurate. Pleaes name your source
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For the most part, my source is a couple of collegiate lectures on the subject in the last 2 years... one at a junior college, and one at a USN&WP top-20 ranked university - and both presented by Doctors of History.
Nothing hard, because - well, if I'm not mistaken, there's really no hard evidence either way. The very passage you quoted can mean various things. One - as historians often do in regards to times of antiquity - has to infer based on the circumstantial evidence.
Perhaps I over-spoke when I said they were a "city-state of homosexuals"... but I do feel it was certainly a part of the norm... the norm that
300 did little to no part in expressing... One of my later posts in this thread (than you quoted) expands on my thoughts more specifically.
I find it ironic that ever since the release of the movie, many are equating their image of 'manly-men' with that of Spartans... many who would consider homosexuality contrary to the 'manly-man' image... and perhaps I got a bit over-eager in my effort to challenge preconceptions.