... Greek men celebrated homosexuality, ideally as elder-to-younger lovers. Marriage, however, was a business deal; men married women to run their household, rarely for love. In 385 BC, Plato wrote in his Symposium 2: "And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best ... ...

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