There are two notable exceptions to this, the relationships of Achilles and Patroclus and Alexander the Great and Hephaiston. However the relationship didn’t usually last very long. Most males engaged in these types of relationships, while they were married. Their relationship was known as paiderastia, or pederasty. In Ancient Greece, an older man, called an erastes (lover) formed a relationship with an adolescent youth, called an eromenos (beloved). From Ancient Greece to the Mayans, Native Americans to the Japanese, homosexuality has been and remains an important part of the world. Because of this, artists depicted relationships between men. There wasn’t a stigma against same-sex relationships, in fact they were encouraged and considered a normal part of aging. For millennia art has represented society, and for millennia art has represented male love, or what today we call homosexuality.
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