/lit/ - Literature

Pederasty was a huge part of Aristocratic Ionian life. The rest of the Greek world, however, seems to have had lower opinions on it. The Dorics, and the lower classes of Ionia, were of the opinion that it was disgusting. It shows up readily in Plato's dialogues, but Plato was an aristocratic Ionian and, as Plato ALSO tells us, the rest of Greece outside of the aristocratic classes of Ionia found Homosexuality abominable. One can imagine this fueled the Democratic vs Aristocratic feud in Athens. It must have been easy to support the completely batshit idiotic Athenian Democracy when the alternative was rich nobles going around assraping little boys.

For contrast, there isn't any homosexuality in Homer or Hesiod, the two oldest Greek writers. It isn't until Ionia's aristocrats start commissioning (or themselves making) literature that we start to see it show up. For example, in Homer, Zeus abducts Ganymede and makes him his cupbearer because he can't bear to see a boy with so much life ahead of him die. He replaces Hebe (who he gives to Hercules as a wife) with Ganymede here, 1) making Ganymede a servant (and Zeus never does this with any other lover) and 2) making Ganymede a God (Zeus never does this with any other lover). Again, it isn't until the Ionia's start putting out literature that we see Zeus and Ganymede become lovers. Why? Because they wanted them to be lovers to justify pederasty.

>will never capture the schizo genius of Moreau

Does anyone have the link to the youtube video where the british islamic guy is talking to people on the street about the density of the Qur'an's literary devices and how that's proof of its divinity? I don't want a /pol/ shitposting thread, I just want to find the bit he was referencing.

Monoglot here; what's the best second language for literature, and how would I go about learning it to a decent level?