Homosexual Relationships Between Men in Sparta

Homosexual relationships between men in Sparta

A) were punished with a painful and drawn-out death or with permanent banishment from Sparta.
B) were accepted only if both partners were unmarried men over the age of thirty who no longer actively served in the military.
C) usually took place between an older man and an adolescent boy as a form of social and political education.
D) were lasting bonds that were recognized as legal marriages if each man had previously married a woman and that union had produced at least one child.