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seem to cast doubt on the general accuracy of Greek claims for the value
of male attachments.
Erroneous as was the contemporary evaluation of Harmodius and
Aristogeiton, it underlines the purposes which homosexuality was meant
to
serve in perpetuating a highly individualistic, competitive , warrior so–
ciety. Relieving to some extent the isolation from family life and provid–
ing an intellectual and military brotherhood, it implicitly incorporated
aggressiveness and the need for domination to all extent that could only
exacerbate these causes of the fragmentation and eventual deterioration of
the Greek states.
Coming in
Partisan Review:
• Raymond Aron:
The Essellce
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Totalitariallism
• Fiction by Doris Lessing
• An Interview with Julia Kristeva
• Robert Alter: Benjamin, Kafka, Proust
• Richard Pipes on Intellectuals and Anti-Americanism
• Leonard Kriegel:
Gellder alld Its Discolltellts
• C. Vann Woodward on the University
• Peter Shaw:
TIle Gellteel Fate
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