Strictly speaking , the concept of Homosexualité wants nothing to say during the Antiquité, because the separation of the sexual relationships in Antiquity passed by a distinction credit-liability rather than a hétéro-homosexual distinction, as one sees it still much around the Mediterranean basin nowadays. Another separation was due to the social status of the protagonists (citizen, free man, slave), and the machism was of rule.
In the Persian Empire, the homosexual practices largemement are largemement attested, especially between an adult man and a Eunuque. Fifth-Curce indicates thus that they “are accustomed, them also, to serve women” (VI, 6,8). One knows in particular the loves of the Large Kings and their eunuques favorites: thus of Darius III and the Bagôas young person, which will be also the lover of Alexandre Large the ( ibid , VI, 5,22), or of Artaxerxès II and of the young person Tiridatès (Élien, varied Histoire , XII, 1).
The Pédérastie was in the ancient Athens installed like a recognized institution of formation of the elites, while being largely codified in many its aspects.
The August 6th 390, the Roman Emperor Théodose proclaims an edict condemning to the Bûcher the homosexual ones. The Roman Empire took for official religion the christinanism and relative freedom on the matter disappears.
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