[[asceticism]] | [[sexuality]] *** ||| |-|-|-| Thracian | Ktisti | Ktisti were men who were perceived as holy for living without women. This is particularly striking for thracians because they were polygamous. Menander puts it: "All Thracians, especially us and the Getae, are not much abstaining, because no one takes less than ten, eleven, twelve wives, some even more. If one dies and has only four or five wives he is called ill-fated, unhappy and unmarried." [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracians#Marriage)