Hardly "inventors" of homosexuality, it has been around for as long as human beings are around. Animals are, in extreme cases, also behave in the same way.Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine
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Aristophanes does not slander anyone and everyone, he slanders those he considers worth for slander and in particular he aims at those who'd please his audience to hear about.
But that's not the point, is it? The point is that Aristophanes has used remarks fit for homosexuality (lakkoproktos, lakkos) to slander people. If homosexuality was a norm or a social "Do", would he do so? AFAIK, you use a term as derigatory when it actually applies that way.
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