In ancient cultures where attraction to members of the same sex was common, did men have to worry about sexual harrassment?

by piedpariah
Tiako

Certainly, tyrants and other powerful men making unwelcome advances or even raping beautiful young men is a trope in classical literature and recorded several times in history. Plutarch's "Life of Cimon" begins with an excellent little ghost story that hinges around a Roman centurion attempting to force himself on a Greek adolescent, and Philip II was (supposedly) assassinated by one Pausanias who was raped by an ally of Philip II, who Philip refused to give justice to.