My research work. (2)

A little bit more of my research work : 

Homosexuality in the Ancient Greece.

Background.

Worldwide, there are a total of 72 countries where being homosexual is illegal, even in some cases like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Sudan, it could be applied to death penalty.

Talking about Europe, the increasingly homophobic acts are more abundant and there is numerous polls in which homosexuals themselves claim that they have suffered some discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

In Spain, since 2005, the egalitarian marriage law is approbed. Anyway the homophobic acts don’t stop.

I is true that the society changes every year, but is striking the fact that in the ancient world, many areas of homosexuality were totally integrated and everyday life.

Introduction.

           

            The homosexuality is in many writings of the Ancient Greece, for example: La Ilíada by Homero (literature), El banquete by Platón (Phylosophy), the myths about Apolo or Zeus and in poetry the writers Sappho or Theognis of Megara.

            Greeks understood the homosexuality in different areas, depending on the age and the sex.

            A example of homosexuality is this ones:

           That man to me seems equal to the gods,

            the man who sits opposite you

            and close by listens

            to your sweet voice

            and your enticing laughter—

            that indeed has stirred up the heart in my breast.

            For whenever I look at you even briefly

            I can no longer say a single thing,

            but my tongue is frozen in silence;

            instantly a delicate flame runs beneath my skin;

            with my eyes I see nothing;

            my ears make a whirring noise.

            A cold sweat covers me,

            trembling seizes my body,

            and I am greener than grass.

            Lacking but little of death do I seem.

            - Sappho. (Translated by Julia Dubnoff).