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anigbrowl
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Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his ...
In all seriousness, I assumed that was part of why the US models itself on Rome rather than Greece. Not that there was no homosexuality in the days of the Roman empire, but there was a lot more performative masculinity to make up for it.
bell-cot
46 days ago
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Ancient Rome was unified, militarily successful, expansionist, rich, and
huge
for a fair number of centuries.
Ancient Greece? Not so much.
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