Things That Actually Are Conspiracies

[FreelancePoliceman]

Remember that time in the past few years when everyone using the internet "found out" simultaneously that all the ancient Greeks were bisexuals?

Well hey, turns out that's a total lie.
http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/sa/rida.../macdowell.pdf


Not sure how tangential mythbusting is to conspiracies, but what better place to post it.

No, classical Greeks being "bisexual" is not a "total lie," and you obviously didn't understand the article which you linked, which is barely relevant to your claim. The term "bisexual" runs the risk of conflating modern identity-based ideas of sexuality with classical practices, but it's not an inaccurate term.
@coeruleum, I'm not going to waste the energy on your posts when I know it's pointless.

[Metamorph]

No, classical Greeks being "bisexual" is not a "total lie," and you obviously didn't understand the article which you linked, which is barely relevant to your claim. The term "bisexual" runs the risk of conflating modern identity-based ideas of sexuality with classical practices, but it's not an inaccurate term.
@coeruleum, I'm not going to waste the energy on your posts when I know it's pointless.

I was going to like the first part of this but I can't like a post that says my posts are a waste.

I'm also not sure modern identity-based practices are completely irrelevant even if I don't think they're objectively scientifically true. The ancient Greeks are clearly not permitting all consensual homosexual relationships (in line with modern identity practices) but at the same time other types of homosexual relationships are normative. Do you think all truths are completely relative and the ancient Greeks essentially inhabited a parallel universe? I kind of think you do think that at least unconsciously or you, as a classicist, would be a Nietzsche, a Goethe, a Schiller, or the likes.