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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ There are various reasons as to why Greek society had strong homosexual elements. And NO it had nothing to do with them being white, to say such a thing is just racist, and as much so as when some whites compare blacks to homosexuals (which I happen to notice sometimes). One reason had to do with the traditional custom of [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedarasty]pedarasty[/URL] in which young adolescent boys were initiated into manhood involving some kind of sexual relations with an older male mentor. The second main reason has to do with the totalitarian dominance males had in Greek society, to the point where females were inferior and that sexual relations with men were somehow more meaningful than with women. [QUOTE]Originally posted by AlexandertheConqueror: [qb] The Macedonians were considered barbarians of the northern lands by the Greeks and were described as such in historical record. The Greeks regarded the Macedonians as a different race of people. "... not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave" - Demosthenes, Third Philippic, 31. The famous words that this Greek orator from Athens used to describe the Macedonian king Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, prior to Philip’s conquest of Greece.[/qb][/QUOTE]^ I too am of the opinion that the Macedonians were not Greek, but I hope you know that there is evidence that also suggest the opposite and there are other scholars who think the opposite as well-- that Macedonians were Greeks. Like for example: http://truth.macedonia.gr/index00.html http://www.macedonia.info/ http://stason.org/TULARC/travel/macedonia/5-What-proof-do-you-have-that-the-ancient-Macedonians-were.html [QUOTE][qb] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/pella01.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/Pella_staghuntL_small.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/Pella_staghuntR_small.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/c1112a.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/b1243b.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/Mosaica.jpg[/IMG] Original coloring of Alexander's Sarcophagus (In Istanbul). [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/ist412.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]^ Interesting pictures, though non of them show blonde hair. And what are we to make of this portrait of him from the Pompeii mosaic, below? [IMG]http://www.ancient-bulgaria.com/images/alexander_the_great.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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