Okay i knew about greek's homosexuality... but sparta soilder's were gay? wow they dint seem like that in movie
2007-03-09 14:13:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Gay? I didn't think so but maybe some were bi? Because they had wives and sons.
But who cares? It was a great movie anyway?
2007-03-12 08:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the short answer is "no," the Spartans were not "gay" in the sense we use today. The long answer: In the ancient pagan world (Greece, for example), free men married, had wives, and raised children. They all did this and all were expected, too. Wives were faithful to their husbands to whom they would have given their virginity upon marriage; as a rule, they would have had no opportunity for sexual contact with anyone else, whether they had the inclination or not. Men, on the other hand, may have had, occasionally, such opportunities, but with one very important distinction: They would always remain the active partner: that is, men did the penetrating; women, girls, and adolescent boys were the penetrated (not unlike much of today’s homosexuality in that last respect, at least). Often these boys would be slaves or prostitutes, though some form of ritualized homosexuality may well have been common in Sparta and, in a far less formal sense, in Athens, between a free man and his free adolescent male student or protégé (I say “ritualized,” because the homosexual sex act itself was punishable by death in both Sparta and Athens). One thing must be made clear: for a free man to be himself penetrated by another man would be a fate worse than death because it would mean the loss of his very manhood, and the rare man who did so willingly would live on in disgrace. Also, you have only to read Herodotus and other primary sources for a first-hand account of the contempt which the Greeks held for any man or people (like the Persians) they regarded as “effeminant.” Whatever poetic license Frank Miller may have taken (and I've heard it was extreme), he got that part right.
2007-03-10 22:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by Cassandria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one was gay in the movie. It ROCKED!Saw it tonight. The Sparta Soldiers were a very strong and triumphant men
2007-03-09 14:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Lovies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not every Spartan was a homosexual. The same way not every man in the 21st century is gay.
And homosexuality was regarded differently back then. It wasn't seen as terribly bizarre if a 30-year-old man had fifteen-year-old boy lovers. Just the way their society was. More decadent.
2007-03-09 14:43:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmm? the movies out already?
you'd think i know with all these ads... =)
2007-03-09 14:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by juicebox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋