Why Was Alexander the Great Gay?!?!?!?!?

Question

Why Oh Why?

Was it actually proven or was it just in the movie?

Answer 1

"Mary F" has it right. Bisexuality was commonplace in the ancient Greco-Roman world. The same was said of Julius Caesar. That did not make them "pansies" - to use a now very politically incorrect term. That's just the way the culture was in that part of the world in ancient times. No one at the time would have thought any less of Alexander or Caesar if their sexual behavior was widely known. [Straight answer from a straight guy.]

Answer 2

Most men learned love from men in ancient Greece. Most boys learned from a mentor or an older man so to speak. Homosexuality was not only common in Ancient Greece, but was part of every day life for men. It was not, however, the same for the Roman Empire. Homosexuality existed, of course, but was greatly discouraged and frowned upon. It is not true to say that they would not have thought less of Caesar for geing gay, the fact of the matter is that the story of Caesar being King Nicomedes' catamite was started by Caesar's enemies in the Senate, and was started as a slander meant to discredit him. If Homosexuality were an accepted way of life in Rome, then it would not have been a very effective slander. It is also noted that Caesar was a notorious womanizer, and his filanderings began after these slurs on his manhood...this indicates to me that Caesar himself set out to prove that he had done no such thing with King Nicomedes. The historians who hated the Imperial family also loved to write that Caligula took his cousin Lepidus as a lover...another way to discredit the Imperial family. Homosexuality was lumped into the same catagory as Incest. All forms of slander indicating they were not approved of by polite society.

Answer 3

Back then, there was no being gay or being normal. They did not make that difference. That's rather new.
Back then, in the old days, people weren't considered to be gay. Actually in some cases it was expected for the man to try out both sides - women and men.

It was all about the human itself. The beauty, the character, the wits. The people weren't pushed in different categories.

It is a rather new thing, to say gay people are different, than normal people, so to say.

Answer 4

for some reason, and Indo European cultures stretching from the Pashtuns in Afghanistan to the Ancient Greeks in - Greece there's been a lot of homosexuality. I'm presuming homosexuality wasn't frowned upon too much in the ancient warrior societies. Having a male partner stimulate fraternity

Answer 5

It was common in the greco-roman world to have relations with men. Men were for loving, women were for breeding. The idea that bathhouse is where gay men congregate isn't all that new.

Answer 6

It was very common practice in that time period. It would have been odd to the people had he not been gay.

Answer 7

True, he was around a lot of guys, its like jail.

Answer 8

Since nobody alive has never met him, that is presumptous.(I cannot spell)