I wish the ancient Greeks where here to defend their culture since I think they are getting a bad rap on the homosexual thing.
The ancients, not just the Greeks, believed that woman was inferior to man, physically and mentally. The Greeks placed a very high level on intellect and learning as well as physical ability. Therefore the Greeks believed that a women was not worthy of a mans "love", since she processed an inferior intellect. True "love" was only possible in a male male relationship between two equal partners. However "love" in the Greek sense did not mean sex. Sex was for male female pairings. Love was more of an intellectual thing not a physical thing. Of course local culture differed from city state to city state. The Romans which borrowed heavily from Greek culture executed homosexuals in it's legions and frowned on homosexuals in society.
I think you are right- I used ‘Greek’ in the title because in ‘La Cage Aux Follett’ they joke and joke of Greek this and Greek that. But I think you are right. Perverts at extreme ends of a society with ‘loud voices’ may, in fact, define that society. I should not have used ‘Greek’ but instead, should have referred to those ‘elements in ancient Greece,’ who made it so that the ‘Greek’ is triumphed by the current day extreme homosexual elements- who are doing the exact same thing- with our USA culture, though they are just an extreme element- who devised a plan of obtaining clout and are executing that plan to the ‘T.’