Cerberus

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Oct 25	awarded	Yearling
Apr 24	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 24	revised	When did homosexuality become unacceptable in Europe? deleted 5 characters in body
Apr 24	comment	What were the origins of Etruscan Civilisation? @T.E.D.: Language is part of culture. In any case, linguistic evidence is scarce. All we know more or less for sure is that Etruscan together with Lenmian and Rhaetic forms a very small language family, Tyrrhenian, as far as we know unrelated to any other. There are speculations about a relation with Indo-European. So this does not help us. It is of course striking that a Tyrrhenian language was spoken so close to Anatolia (on Lemnos); but still there is nothing like a consensus, alas.
Mar 15	awarded	Enlightened
Mar 15	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 10	comment	When did homosexuality become unacceptable in Europe? @Robusto: Thanks! About this absence of pleasure-seeking: I would be a bit sceptical of any works published before Dover's Greek Hompsexuality. He decided to assess all common assumptions of the past very critically; earlier works tended to reproduce common beliefs among classicists that may have been based on romantic ideas from the 19th century, where sex was still fairly taboo. A kind of wishful thinking about history. Pleasure sought in homosexual acts was unthinkable. Dover (1978) says nothing about this absence of pleasure Kitto mentions in the fifties, so...
Nov 2	comment	Why did China shut itself out of the world in the 15th century? @Martin: I'm sorry, but I really don't think "Why did China shut itself out of the world in the 14th century?" is appropriate when it organized several huge expeditions after the 14th century. I really honestly don't understand this at all.
Nov 2	comment	Why did China shut itself out of the world in the 15th century? @Martin: Both the explorations (1405–1433) of Zheng He and the great isolation happened in the 15th century, not the 14th. Why do you mention the beginning of the Ming?
Nov 2	comment	Why did China shut itself out of the world in the 15th century? You mean the 15th century.
Nov 1	awarded	Quorum
Nov 1	comment	Which country traces its roots back to the oldest civilization? I really think Lennart's question is essential in this matter. "Civilization" is hardly an academically fixed concept.
Oct 30	comment	What was Lenin's major criticism of or differences with Marx? I believe an important difference was that Marx had an industrialized society in mind where his class struggle was expected to lead to a classless state through a revolution of the industrial proletariat, not a mainly agrarian society like Russia; but Lenin tried to incite various non-industrial segments of society to bring about a classless state in agrarian Russia.
Oct 28	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture @Lennart: I think my explicit statement that it was not about sex with prepubescent children should have been clear enough; but I suppose a short discussion of the various definitions would improve my answer, so I have added that. Is this better?
Oct 28	revised	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture added 665 characters in body
Oct 28	awarded	Talkative
Oct 28	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture @Nol: That is true if you compare Athens with Rome; but I believe many other Greek cities had stronger taboos against it, so it would be difficult to compare the whole with Rome. Besides, I believe there were significant differences between the various cultures within the Roman Empire too.
Oct 28	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture P.S. How am I blurring the difference if I explicitly state that they did not normally have sex with prepubescent boys? That seems clear enough.
Oct 28	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture @Lennart: You are being selective. There are several definitions of "child" on your Wiki link. The Greeks didn't even have a word for the modern phenomenon (Greek paedophilia has no necessary sexual meaning), so of course they didn't think of it as modern Westerners do. If the question is "was it paedophilia to the Greeks?", then there would be no meaningful answer, because it is an anachronism. Is it unreasonable to explain Greek sex under 18 to such a question? I never said it was paedophilia; I just mentioned the ages and left it open to the reader to define it.
Oct 28	comment	Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture @Lennart: "Any sexual interest in children" does not fit with Athenian practice? How does it not? Men performed sexual acts with children.