re: Best Ancient Historical movies that are mostly accurate

Spartacus and his crew shouldve fled to africa and avoided crassus
they were cornered

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when i get time, i want to write an epic about ottomans vs vlad or europe

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I would read that.

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also, welsh rebellion against england ( like bravehart

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Also Longshanks, right?

And this exchange right here is why I love history but am also mindful of the huge gaps in our knowledge of what really happened.

The idea that homosexuality was celebrated in Ancient Greece or Rome or anywhere else never made sense to me. It defies logic. Sure, some people were gay. Maybe Alexander was bi. But to think so many men were porking each other that an entire civilization normalized it is absurd.

Never has any society celebrated gayness as much as the modern west. Yet there still aren’t that many gay men, and there certainly aren’t otherwise straight men having gay sex just bc it’s culturally acceptable.

Simply put, straight men will never willingly choose to frick other men regardless of anything else, and there’s no reason to think more men were gay back then.

But then again, I could be totally wrong. That’s the fun of history.

Anyone answer Alexander Nevsky?
Because, Alexander Nevsky.

Youtube - A.Nevsky "The Battle on the Ice"

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Score by Sergei Prokofiev

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Don't get me wrong. It existed. It just wasn't super common and celebrated, as some believe. It existed mostly in the form of pederasty, the old mentor/student initiation rite

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And in this mentor/student relationship usually the mentor didn't actually penetrate the student, basically they had sex with their inner thighs right below their arse (which somehow seems worse to me).

In fact when Caesar was in Bithynia when he was just starting out he was sent by the army to ensure help from King Nicomedes. Rumors spread they had an affair and that Caesar let him actually have sex with him and he was ridiculed for it his whole life, although he denied it.

And while you are right many people today try and use the ancient world to prove a political or social point about their beliefs on sexuality it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Like I said it was fairly common in the army and as you pointed out in upper class households as a mentor/mentee relationship. Generally there was no love or real relationship aspect to either of these. Gay sex, just like pedophelia, was more common in the ancient world, that doesn't mean it was openly talked about or celebrated, and being in a gay relationship was certainly not accepted freely

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basically they had sex with their inner thighs right below their arse (which somehow seems worse to me).

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Eh, i think taking it up the butt would be worse

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It's all fantasy.

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I mean, it’s not. We have lots of detailed information and 1000’s of sources on tons of events from that time period. Not to mention archaeological evidence

Any outrageous thing you could think of would have been accurate for Caligula.....the dude made decadence look conservative.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the only answer.

Here's one. BLACK DEATH about the Bubonic Plague which features Sean Bean looking a lot like Ned Stark:

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