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Several prominent Ancient Greek statesmen and philosophers, such as Plato<ref>Plato (348 BC). [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.%20Laws%20636c&lang=original ''Laws''], book 1. Republished from ''Plato in Twelve Volumes'' (1967), translated by R. G. Bury. (Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP), v. 10. Reprinted at Perseus website (Medford, MA: Tufts U).</ref> and [[Lycurgus]]<ref>Xenophon (c. 400 BC). [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0210%3Atext%3DConst.+Lac.%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D13 ''The Lacedaemonian Constitution''], book 2. Republished from ''Xenophon in Seven Volumes'' (1925). Translated by E. C. Marchant and G. W. Bowersock (Cambridge: Harvard UP). Reprinted at Perseus website (Medford, MA: Tufts U).</ref> spoke out against homosexuality and pederasty, and more ancient writers such as [[Homer]] and [[Hesiod]] do not make mention of homosexuality. Because of this, and accounts from Plato and [[Aristotle]]<ref>Aristotle (c. 340s BC). [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0058%3Abook%3D2%3Asection%3D1272a ''Politics'') republished ]. Republished from ''Complete Works of Aristotle''.
Reprinted at Perseus website (Medford, MA: Tufts U).</ref> regarding the origin of pederasty, it is believed that homosexuality and homosexual mythology was not native to mainland Greece but introduced to it by the Cretans and/or the peoples of the Near East during the late Archaic period.
