
“Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful frendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.”
Ok, wait, I’m confused. So Plato was talking about homosexuality as a ‘concept’, but my university thinks it’s okay to...
inkstainedqueer:
I’d like to know where this is quoted from, because all I can find is other people quoting Plato, as opposed to a direct...
One of the many many reasons why I love Ancient Greece.