'''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 name="matthews">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 name="matthews" />
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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]] civilisation among the upper classes.<ref name="matthews">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 name="matthews" />
The [[Old Testament]] scholar [[Gordon Wenham]] stated the following regarding Greek homosexuality:
The [[Old Testament]] scholar [[Gordon Wenham]] stated the following regarding Greek homosexuality: