I am debating the idea of a general homoerotic aspect to ancient Greek affairs yes. At least in the extent that people nowdays suggest that it was. I tend to believe that not much has really changed at these matters since then.There were homosexuals yes. But not that every teenager was at some point "taught" at homoerotism by a man that his parents usually ordered to be his teacher. And of course this also cannot be explained by biology. You cant have a whole society full of homosexuals. It against human nature. Something like that if had happened must have been forced to the youth, something which i dont believe it did. But this is a big discussion, which has been made some time ago, but if you like to we can discuss it further.Just so's I can be clear - are you rejecting the idea of a general homoerotic aspect to ancient Greek and Macedonian affairs, or are you more specifically rejecting it in reference to Alex and Heph?
About Alexander and Hephaestion, i am also debating a homosexual relationship between them since we have no real evidence to suggest that, apart from them two being best friends. And as you can understand, the hypothesis that they may have been something more than friends, is based on the whole idea of homoerotic affairs in ancient greece. And since i debate that, i also debate this.At least of being based in a probably false theory.
Did i confuse you?
I agree with you, that it doesnt really matter if they were or were not in such an affair. It matters though when someone bases half of his movie on that, when it is only an assumption. And especially since we are talking about a figure like Alexander.