Quote Originally Posted by pezhetairoi
wait, if the senate can't build temples....how the hell do you maintain public order?
Senate maintains order through free bread, allowing the people of Rome to vote for who becomes Questor, Aedile, Preator, Consul, Tribune, and through giving people free games and races.

So because the senate is an elected body of people (Senators became senators after being elected to one of the above positions. Cicero became a senator after being a Questor at Lilybeum), they are trusted by the people enough for them to stay in order.

Or the senate could just summon Sulla to kill everyone against them. The summon Sulla option is probably the best:-)

On were Spartans gay Spartans were chaste. It was part of their training (For both men and women) they were taught things about sex that the catholic church would like, such as that sex was done merely for reproduction. They married at the order of the state, and would just have sex to make children, and then stop (Because unlike other greek women Spartan women had important things to do so there was not much sex after the first child. So they didn't have much sex with men or women, however usually sex without state aproval was between male lovers though. However most of the time sex was between male/female at the orders of the state. Also training with women respecting them as people, and being around them (Something that out of all the greeks only Spartan men did), got them to treat women better, not fall inlove with them, there are just too many greek historians claiming Spartan women had to rape the men on the wedding night to think the Spartan men fell inlove.

There is one historian who we know for a fact didn't use history to write Spartans as whatever he hated.

Plato was very pro-Spartan, and he confirms what most greeks said about Spartan life overall, although he does refute some charges such as Spartans were cannibals.