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The Greeks are attributed with a whole host of cutting-edged inventions and credited with pushing Western thought forward with philosophy.<\/p>\n

Under their watch, medicines and scientific practise were forged and crafted in ways that are still seen today, evidence found by archaeologists all the time of an advanced civilisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city-state was born, and so was thrust into the world a political model known as democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As such, the Greeks are lauded for their forward-thinking and impressively progressive society and way of life.<\/p>\n

But there are darker, more debauched things that the Greeks introduced to the world, including, historian Charles Freeman told Express.co.uk, the sex party.<\/p>\n

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A crude and taboo topic, everyone has heard of the sex party, or an orgia, as it was known in Ancient Greece.<\/p>\n

Long have the era’s elites been rumoured to have engaged in acts of sexual deviance with their peers at parties that could sometimes last for days.<\/p>\n

“They were called symposia or symposiums,” said Mr Freeman, author of The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome. “I suppose they were like dinner parties that descended into anarchy.<\/p>\n

“A typical symposia would have courtesans come in, and at the end of the evening, obviously you could have sex with a courtesan who would often play the flute and show off qualities other than that which was sexual.”<\/p>\n

Often, Mr Freeman said, the courtesans were highly educated and so would hold conversations and politics and philosophy before things took an altogether different turn.<\/p>\n

“The dining clubs, for example, ended in chaos, anarchy, sex and over-drinking \u2014 rather like the Bullingdon Club,” he said.<\/p>\n

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