The accepted culture of the Greeks at the time, as documented by contemporary writers.
Not that there's anything WRONG with that...LOL!!
Now I gotta go back and see how many folks already said that...MUD
not true. It was never accepted and was considered a CHOICE. You mistake acceptance for minding your own business. Even the present day homoadvocates state that there was no more homosexual behavior then as there is now.
Contemporary from where? Homoadvocates from which leftist western university?
It was written as a perversion then.
Alexander wasn't Greek, you know, and no contemporay writer ever suggested he was gay.
Not all or even most Greek city-states approved of the pederasty-rape of the Spartans and Athenians. Many deplored it and considered it reprehensible. Philip of Macedon disapproved of it, and to say the "Greeks" accepted this at the time is not wholly accurate. Even the Romans who adopted much of Greek culture looked down on those who practiced pederasty openly and winked at those aristocrats who had the "good taste" to emulate Athens with acceptably non-aristocratic catamites and not those who "degraded" themselves by assuming the submissive role in any circumstance.