First of all, before any details of the doings of the homosexuality, certain information about their history needs to be presented. There weren’t terms or concepts which correspond to the mordern dichotomy of ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ in the ancient Greece. The description of acient Greek attitudes is important to recognize that there was regional variation. For instance, there were general strictures against same-sax eros in parts of Ionia, whereas it was approved of and celebrated in Eli's and Boiotia(Dover,1989;Halperin,1990 cited in Pickett, 2015)
In ancient Greece, people didn't have the idea of love which we have now. Actually, sex wasn't about people’s gender but about the role that they would had played in the intercourse - dominant …show more content…
First, making sure that you know the difference between Roman Empire, Poman Pebublic and Rome Kingdom is important. I will just give a short explanation because that is not my purpose. In the beginning,the Roman Kindom was controlled by kings; afterward, the Rome Republic was controlled by tribunes,then Rome Empire was ruled by emperors, for example, Julius Caesar. Roman society was similar to Greek one. They both included a lot about social status.Thus, in Rome, people’s gender was not really pivotal;the role in sexual act is same with Greece: passive or active. Nevertheless,there still are some different between Greece and Rome. In Rome, homosexuality wasn't as widespread as Greece.Homosexual people had to go to certain places,as the bath-house,to find their partners.An anecdote about Julius Caesar let us know how Roman society saw homosexuality.Caesar love his body a lot; he shaved and bathed every day. This let people believe that he was tender and bisexual.In addition, soldiers would like to make openly fun with the generals who have won battles to make the generals feel that no one could defeat them(Emanuele …show more content…
Some people started to persecute the same sex love, for example, Jews, Muslim, and heretics. However, the reasons of this weren't very clear.The Catholic Church started to show that the standard of morality was “nature”, so they forbad homosexuality. If a person who was homoxual was known, they would be punished.For example,“who ever shall be found to have committed that incontinence which is against nature shall be punish” the first council that condemned homosexual sex said. The phenomenon was very influential in the Western
In ancient Greece, people didn't have the idea of love which we have now. Actually, sex wasn't about people’s gender but about the role that they would had played in the intercourse - dominant …show more content…
First, making sure that you know the difference between Roman Empire, Poman Pebublic and Rome Kingdom is important. I will just give a short explanation because that is not my purpose. In the beginning,the Roman Kindom was controlled by kings; afterward, the Rome Republic was controlled by tribunes,then Rome Empire was ruled by emperors, for example, Julius Caesar. Roman society was similar to Greek one. They both included a lot about social status.Thus, in Rome, people’s gender was not really pivotal;the role in sexual act is same with Greece: passive or active. Nevertheless,there still are some different between Greece and Rome. In Rome, homosexuality wasn't as widespread as Greece.Homosexual people had to go to certain places,as the bath-house,to find their partners.An anecdote about Julius Caesar let us know how Roman society saw homosexuality.Caesar love his body a lot; he shaved and bathed every day. This let people believe that he was tender and bisexual.In addition, soldiers would like to make openly fun with the generals who have won battles to make the generals feel that no one could defeat them(Emanuele …show more content…
Some people started to persecute the same sex love, for example, Jews, Muslim, and heretics. However, the reasons of this weren't very clear.The Catholic Church started to show that the standard of morality was “nature”, so they forbad homosexuality. If a person who was homoxual was known, they would be punished.For example,“who ever shall be found to have committed that incontinence which is against nature shall be punish” the first council that condemned homosexual sex said. The phenomenon was very influential in the Western