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'''Greek homosexuality''' which involved pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy with the boy as a passive partner) was a central feature of [[Greece|Greek]] civilization among the upper classes.<ref>http://history-world.org/greece%20economy.htm</ref><ref name="matthews">http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref>  The writer E. M. Forster had a fictional character in the work ''Maurice'' call Greek [[homosexuality]] "the vice of the Greeks".<ref name="matthews" />   

'''Greek homosexuality''' which involved pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy with the boy as a passive partner) was a central feature of [[Greece|Greek]] civilization among the upper classes.<ref>http://history-world.org/greece%20economy.htm</ref><ref name="matthews">http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref>  The writer E. M. Forster had a fictional character in the work ''Maurice'' call Greek [[homosexuality]] "the vice of the Greeks".<ref name="matthews" />   

==Historical sources and evidence==

==Historical sources and evidence==

 

What is known about homosexuality in Greece is mainly revealed through  and Greek [[Tragedy|tragedies]] (dramas) and mythological stories of Greek gods, and this historical record is overall fragmentary. Of the approximately 1,000 Greek tragedies that were produced in Athens, the learning capital of Greece in little over one century, only 33 have survived. In addition, this and other literary evidence of homosexuality in ancient Greece consists almost completely of public forms, and lacks the evidence of private journals and letters. A further issue is that it is difficult to determine if homosexuality was at all common among all classes, rather than mostly remaining among the upper classes of society. Some assert that pro-homosexual authors have been extrapolate prevalent homosexuality out of little evidence.<ref>http://homosexualityinancientgreece.wordpress.com/</ref>

What is known about homosexuality in Greece is mainly revealed through  and Greek [[Tragedy|tragedies]] (dramas) and mythological stories of Greek gods, and this historical record is overall fragmentary. Of the approximately 1,000 Greek tragedies that were produced in Athens, the learning capital of Greece in little over one century, only 33 have survived. In addition, this and other literary evidence of homosexuality in ancient Greece consists almost completely of public forms, and lacks the evidence of private journals and letters. A further issue is that it is difficult to determine if homosexuality was at all common among all classes, rather than mostly remaining among the upper classes of society. Some assert that pro-homosexual authors have been extrapolate prevalent homosexuality out of little evidence.<ref>http://homosexualityinancientgreece.wordpress.com/</ref>