[SunkenCiv]

The entire society of ancient Sparta revolved around gender separation and pederasty.

[El Cid]

I admit that that is an aspect of ancient Greek history that I tend to gloss over (and cover my eyes and just say ‘ewwww’...). I read of the ‘Sacred Band’ (actually I remembered them as the ‘Theban Fabulous Brigade’ ... but I eventually found the reference. At least I got the Thebes part correct), and other various accounts of Greek buggery, but I tend to skip those sections. Just seems very bizarre, and it makes me wonder if someone just had bad press agents and made-up slander eventually became enshrined as history... Either that, or there was an abundance of weird folks in that area of the world at that time ...