> Spartans believed that the love of an accomplished aristocrat for an adolescent boy was essential for the boy to develop as a free citizen and faithful warrior. Plato wrote in his Laws that homosexuality was beyond nature, yet several contemporaries wrote that the concept of Spartan pederasty was haste but still erotic<
also known as the West Hollywood doctrine. Maybe that’s why the Spartans were pissed off, they wanted to vent and erase that disgusting childhood memory by killing their enemies swiftly.
see my post 13