Why did the ancient Greeks favour homosexual relationships?

The Ancient Greeks did not favor homosexuality over heterosexuality. In fact that would be rather erroneous, since the laws obliged each man to marry in order to create more citizens and thus future soldiers for the State. There is a misunderstanding, as said by Yiannis Tsiolis, on the nature of man to man relations. read more

According to the Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, the symposion was the main reason for the importance of homosexuality in ancient Greece, as it became the focus of expressions of love, sex, and liaisons both physical and spiritual. read more

The most widespread and socially significant form of same-sex sexual relations in ancient Greece was between adult men and pubescent or adolescent boys, known as pederasty (marriages in Ancient Greece between men and women were also age structured, with men in their thirties commonly taking wives in their early teens). read more