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Removed the phrase "earning it a unsavory reputation which it still has today" as it is pure opinion and is unsubstantiated by the source.
'''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]] civilisation, earning it a unsavory reputation which it still has today.<ref>http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref> The writer [[E. M. Foster]] had a fictional character in the work ''Maurice'' call Greek [[homosexuality]] "the vice of the Greeks".<ref>http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref>
'''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]] civilisation.<ref>http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref> The writer [[E. M. Foster]] had a fictional character in the work ''Maurice'' call Greek [[homosexuality]] "the vice of the Greeks".<ref>http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue7/matthews.html</ref>
The [[Old Testament]] scholar [[Gordon Wenham]] stated the following regarding Greek homosexuality:
The [[Old Testament]] scholar [[Gordon Wenham]] stated the following regarding Greek homosexuality: