Manji
This whole thing had ended since my 3rd or 4th post where I apologized if I had offended anyone and it had untill you went on calling me a moron etc.
Anyway, let's say it ended there and make no further reference to it.
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Well, I can give you other examples of "man to man love" (as it is translated from greek to english) specially in the works of Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, I did use the above play because it referenced the myth of the maenads, which is infact a myth but based on reality (as all myths are).
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Well, that is my point, the translations obviously aren't accurate.
Why would we find these alleged scholars claiming some prevelent homosexuality in Hellas, when the very texts obviously prove otherwise, why would they use the Symposium for example, to support this myth when the text when carefully read obviously gives totally different meanings as seen in my previous post?
As for the myth you used, the correct process is to "analyze it first.
See these examples that actually give a totally different meaning to a different myth.
The name "Agamemnon" is synthetical, from "ago" (or one of the verb's deriving nouns) + "memnimai" (possibly having to do with the unity of the Hellinic history and the significance of historical memory as an integral part of unity among people of he same blood).
The name "Ifigeneia" is also synthetical, from "ifis" + "genos" and it clearly symbolizes the unity of the "genos" (=the Hellines") which was to be sacrificed, since the tribes of the mainland of Hellas started a war against the also Hellinic colony of Troy.
Agamemnon, is mentioned to have killed a deer in hunting, without noticing that this deer belonged to Artemis, which is why Artemis should be mad with Agamemnon; so mad as to provoke the sacrifice of Ifigeneia (=the unity of the Hellines), by making Agamemnon set sails against the Trojans.
But this would rather be another historical symbolization, since the war of Troy was actually a war betwen priesthoods and had nothing to do with Helen. It is possible that Agamemnon, who represents the Hellinic unity (or more accurately the memories of the Hellinic historical continuum) did something realy nasty to the priestesses of Artemis (the deer could symbolize pureness), so there was a conflict between priesthoods (Artemis and Zeus), which led to the sacrifice of Ifigeneia (=the unity of the Hellines), with the civil war between the Hellines and Trojans.
In the same myth also notice the name of the king of Sparta: Menelaos: from "minis" + "laos", which is in plain words "tha rage of the people".
In the myth of Cronos eating his children we have the symbolization of time ("Hronos" in Hellinic) eating his "children", days, months and years, without the earth ("Gaia") and the sky ("Ouranos") noticing it. Probably having to do with the (false?) anticipated time linearity in our 3d-dimensional timespace. Or, if this is too much, it could have to do with the eradication of the memories of the early Hellinic civilization (dates back to 38,000 B.C.) after the glaciers melted at about 9,500 b.C. and the Aegan Sea flooded. Zeus (possibly from the verb "Zeugnyo"=create a link), comes as a link between the past and the known to us ancient Hellinic civilization putting a link between time and between people,
So before we use your example, the correct "process" would be to "analyze" Dionysus, Maenads, Cadmus etc....
Almost forgot to ask, what happened to the women eating men and children part of the play?
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Funny how "hellenic" history has been studied and researched for centuries by non-greeks and you immediately state that the out-of-greece curriculae are wrong.
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Let me present another example.
During the 6th International Symposium on Ancient Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Hellas, concluded that King Philip II of Macedonia was bisexual!!!
Now the interesting part:
During this "symposium" these alleged historians were comfronted by the well known (in Hellas that is) Hellin researcher Kyriakos Velopoulos.
What he managed to uncover is very interesting.
The two main speakers were Kate Modersen and Mandian (spl?), both well respected historians and professors at New England University.
He argued with them on the topic, his arguments were based on the original texts, by original I mean in ancient Hellinic, not translated.
These "historians" couldn't read a word in ancient Hellinic and of course had no idea on how to translate the text.
It was all over the Hellinic news how they were ridiculed and left, long before it even ended.
Honestly would you trust anything these people would claim?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are many respected historians that do know what they are talking about, but today, where we find anyone publishing and strongly supporting literally anything they fund him/her to write, sorry but I just can't accept their views so easily.