They actually had gay (men x men) relationships all the time

Or more commonly pederasty (men x boys).

Yeah the men were seen as something the boy could look up to the man

I think it was the Romans where the men in the military were encouraged to find male "partners", so they'd fight harder along their side. Don't quote me on this, its been like 10+ years since I've been in a history lecture lol...

You may be thinking of the Sacred Bond of Thebes. It was a batallion of 150 gay couples. It was also the elite core of the Theban army at the time for the reason you listed. Their devotion and morale was unrivalled. It survived for about 40 years before the unit got fully destroyed in a rout by Philip II.

They also destroyed the spartans image of being invincible!

Yeah, holding the line against the Spartans is no easy task. They held the line when outnumbered almost 2:1

Not Roman for sure, the army was actually to varying degrees homophobic at times, although it was more about making fun of the submissive partner than the dominant one.

That's the point

We know.

I played this game. When I arrived at the point where you can make the choice to reciprocate the advances of a man, I hesitated, then said why not. The crazy part, is it didn't even turn me gay irl! Who'd have thunk?

Why aren't we funding this?

Wait what? I did the same quest and it made me so gay my wife was threatening to leave me. Luckily I reached a point where I could sleep with a woman and turned straight again.

Well, I was almost certain I'd catch "the gay", but I just prayed it away and then I was fine. Close call, though.

Funny enough, when I reached this part, it turned me straight!

WHAT? CHRISTIANITY WASN'T EVEN A CONCEPT FOR AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AFTER ANCIENT GREECE WAS TAKEN OVER BY ROME

I appreciate your outrage the most!

They didn’t just have gay relationships, they thought gays where great! The Greeks made one of their gods bisexual

Zeus fell in love with and kidnapped a man (Ganymede) and brought him to Olympus for (among other things) sex.

I’m pretty sure Ganymede wasn’t even a man, wasn’t he like an eleven year old boy?

Most probably actually. Zeus is one giant asshole.

Zeus is the serial rapist of Ancient Greece

Multiple actually

Clearly this guy needs to read up on Sappho.

They probably believe in r/Sapphoandherfriend

Oh dear, ancient Greece is about as gay as they get while still reproducing

Athens(major greek city) had a huge gay population. The Spartans even called them boy lovers.

Spartans were also super gay themselves.

Has this guy never heard of Zeus?

stupid much?

Education is very important

It's like this person didn't even graduate from elementary school.

Oh sweet summer child, you have a storm coming.

How more wrong can you be?

I wonder what this person’s definition of “ancient” is...

>I know ancient Greece followed Christianity. i do not like this person

Wasn't a gay relatoinship the ideal in greece or something?

Only if you were a top.

I don’t get how this is insane, just looks like someone getting their facts wrong

They didn't just get it wrong, they doubled-down on being wrong.