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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" />   

The [[Old Testament]] scholar Gordon Wenham declared concerning Greek homosexuality:

The [[Old Testament]] scholar Gordon Wenham declared concerning Greek homosexuality: "Most of the ancient Near East adopted an attitude to homosexuality very similar to that of classical Greece and Rome which simply accepted it as long as it was done among consenting adults. Indeed Greeks and Romans often approved homosexual acts between adult men and youths where it was part of an ongoing educational relationship. This practice of pederasty does not seem to have been approved in the ancient orient, but in other respects the classical and oriental outlooks seem similar."<ref>[http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_attitude_wenham.html The Old Testament Attitude to Homosexuality, Gordon J Wenham, Expository Times 102 (1991): 259-363]</ref>

{{cquote|Most of the ancient Near East adopted an attitude to homosexuality very similar to that of classical Greece and Rome which simply accepted it as long as it was done among consenting adults. Indeed Greeks and Romans often approved homosexual acts between adult men and youths where it was part of an ongoing educational relationship. This practice of pederasty does not seem to have been approved in the ancient orient, but in other respects the classical and oriental outlooks seem similar.<ref>[http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_attitude_wenham.html The Old Testament Attitude to Homosexuality, Gordon J Wenham, Expository Times 102 (1991): 259-363]</ref>}}

==Historical sources and evidence==

==Historical sources and evidence==