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5 posted on 10/05/2007 2:16:57 PM PDT by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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I've never heard Cyrus described as a homosexual before. According to Herodotus,

"There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians...As soon as they hear of any luxury, they instantly make it their own: and hence, among other novelties, they have learned pederasty from the Greeks." (1.135)

The Greek text reads paisi misgontai, literally "to have intercourse with boys" (or "children").

But Cyrus would have encountered Greeks only late in his life, after he conquered the Greek cities of Asia Minor, so the supposed introduction of this practice would probably be later.

6 posted on 10/05/2007 2:52:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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