I imagine that regardless of your orientation, if you’re a leader in that time period, you’re living with the undercurrent of “You MUST create an heir!”
I’m no expert on the subject, but reading Plato’s dialogues lately, the Athenians of the era just before Alexander had no preclusive prejudice for gendered relations. That said, the human demographic in Plato’s dialogues is very much biased towards the upper class of society, and I believe that has always slanted towards social exception through hierarchy, with a special place for the rogue aberrant who strings the bow of dogma at the edge of the tribe.
On the other hand, he did have a partner with whom he got children, but that might be a lavender marriage. Or maybe he was bisexual, idk.
Most likely bisexual by our standards. But they viewed relationships a bit different than we do.
“Bi our standards”… Get it???
I give that one 69 out of 100.
Nice score
Thanks, Danny Elfman composed it
You killed my parents
Maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10
Rigid “sexual orientation” is kind of a modern concept.
Yeah, brought about by the invention of procreation, which is a very recent phenomenon.
Stupid procreating beings… Splits into two
lol no
I imagine that regardless of your orientation, if you’re a leader in that time period, you’re living with the undercurrent of “You MUST create an heir!”
Greek culture lacked any binary distinction.
I’m no expert on the subject, but reading Plato’s dialogues lately, the Athenians of the era just before Alexander had no preclusive prejudice for gendered relations. That said, the human demographic in Plato’s dialogues is very much biased towards the upper class of society, and I believe that has always slanted towards social exception through hierarchy, with a special place for the rogue aberrant who strings the bow of dogma at the edge of the tribe.
Yeah, those nobles also owned humans so like, not really representative of most of the population of Greece, probably.
Didn’t they have a distinction as in, “who tops/bottoms whom and where are they on the social&/age ladder”?
Pictured: Alexander the Great announcing his victory to the citizens of Issus