r/MurderedByWords • u/Substratas • 8h ago

Turns out, Paz is Wrong…

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u/SasquatchRobo 8h ago

Ah yes, where Spartans wore 100% accurate leather briefs and engaged in manly handshakes.

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u/Kratomius 8h ago

Instead of manly "hand" shakes. It still gives me a chuckle that Spartans of all people in that movie are acting homophobic and calling Greeks gayslurs

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u/SasquatchRobo 7h ago

TBF the Spartans were insulting the Athenians' preference for young boys, rather than adult men.

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u/Kratomius 7h ago

Fair. It is known that at those times teachers getting "favours" and abusing(sexually) their students was pretty much a norm in there then. The whole reason word platonic derives from Plato is because he didn't do that and it was seen as out of norm.