Sublimation and Athens

The Persian empire is absolute. That's why it condemns love as well as philosophy and sport. Cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another. But in places that impose absolutely, like the Persian empire, he says, taking the lover is always considered disgraceful. So you've got in the two extremes under tyranny. It's always shameful to pursue love philosophy or sport because that emboldens us to aspire higher and to achieve higher ambitions. And so it's a threat. Then indiscriminate approval of love in any case, which includes men loving women, which includes all heterosexual relations in an interesting way, right? That's dullness and stupidity. Between those two extremes