Was socrates gay
Socrates & Sophocles Statues
History
Many New York City public parks and playgrounds are named in honor of prominent figures in New York Municipality and American history. The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project compiled a list of public parks and playgrounds named after male lover men, lesbians, and bisexuals, several of which intentionally honor an LGBT individual. In addition, there are memorials that honor LGBT individuals. This list includes the Socrates and Sophocles Statues in The Park at Athens Square in Queens.
The nine-acre Park at Athens Square, on 30th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, was formerly a educational facility playground and adjacent park opened in 1963 and 1967, respectively. After the City funded reconstruction in 1990, the area’s Greek-American community wanted it turned into a neighborhood gathering place. Architect Stamatios P. Lykos created a core court with an amphitheater and sculptural elements, a recreational space, and perimeter seating. The park was completed in 1997. The focal point of the central court is three Doric columns and four statues of Greek figures. These include Socrates, by s
Greek Homosexuality
Homosexuality: sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. In ancient Greece, this was a normal practice.
Introduction
Violent debate, enthusiastic writings, shamefaced silence, flights of fantasy: few aspects of ancient community are so hotly contested as Greek pederasty, or - as we shall see below - homosexuality. Since the British classicist K.J. Dover published his influential book Greek Homosexuality in 1978, an avalanche of new studies has appeared. We can discern two approaches:
- The historical approach: scholars are looking for the (hypothetical) roots of pederasty in very ancient initiation rites and strive to reconstruct a development. Usually, a lot of fantasy is required, because our sources carry out not often relate to these ancient rites.
- The synchronistic approach: scholars concentrate upon homosexuality in fifth and fourth-century Athens, where it was integral part of social life.
In the present article, we will use the second approach, although we won't discount the first one. There are many sources of evidence: lyrical poetry, vases, statues, myths, philosophical treatises, speeches, inscriptions, medical texts, tragedies, comedi
Plato's Symposium as High Camp
Plato never condemned the physical aspects of homosexual love outright until he was past the age of eighty and wrote the Laws, when his own craving was understandably on the wane. Too often we read only extracts and summaries of Plato's works without realizing that these have been extracted and suimmarized by anti-homosexual philosophers and teachers who, until relatively recently, could not tolerate anything that would undermine their own heterosexual ideals. But if we read the originals, we will discover what is seldom talked about in the schools.
Even within the Symposium, the definitionn of the ideal love between males excludes only genital contact primary to orgasm. Plato includes sleeping together naked, embracing, hugging, caressing, and kissing of all parts of the body as justifiable expressions of true "Platonic love". He considers heterosexual love to be but a pallid reflection of the ideal, and places great emphasis upon the attractiveness and youthfulness of the lover. But even while he mildly discourages sexual intercourse between men, and praises nobility and high-minded virtue, he is using the tongue-in-cheek hu
Philosophy Forum
@Pepijn Sweep,
It is only the trails that one goes through in their animation that teaches and defines a person, Socrates sexulaity was never a trial so was never something to really gleen any understanding from, it was not a ask, so does not need solving.
Was Socrates gay? Who cares as long as you see the brilliance he gave without doubting it or confusing it with sexuality, his or yours.
Would his words teach you more if he were gay? Not unless you are trying to educate yourself something, frankly useless.
His wisdom was not sexualy based, why should we be biased one way or the other?
You must retain sexuality is not who we are, is not even our identity really, it is a small mind that concludes you as a matter of sex, your sex or by others sex. That includes yourself seeing yourself as more or less of a person because of your sexuality. These people do not matter and if you think it does you forfeit as well. No better, no worse.
Unless a trial and has taught you something you could not learn elsewhere, but this does not mean that all other peoples have not learned of by their own trails als