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WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
One of the most asked qutns of all time is: was Achill gay? One of the ma arguments that suggt he might have been gay is the exprsn of love between Achill and his clost iend Patrocl, who he had known sce childhood. Some thk he was bisexual, sce there is evince of his romantic attachments to both men and women, while others see his ep attachment to Patrocl as a nfirmatn that he was gay.
Neher Achyl, nor Plato, nor Xenophon uld have imaged Achill and Patrocl as gay. Patrocl’ self-doubts show that his (gay) sexualy is trapped a morn tensn between ncealment and Wolfgang Petersen, Pels and Thetis would not have been disturbed by the erotic turn of their son’s iendship. ” Siarly the Hebrew Bible David breaks to a lament upon learng of Jonathan’s ath wh whom he had sworn a venant of iendship: “I am distrsed for thee my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonrful, passg the love of women” (2 Samuel 1:26) make Achill and Patrocl gay is not historilly false the way would be if they were given Facebook acunts or were discsg multiculturalism over ppucco.
IS ACHILL GAY?
Makg them homosexual impos upon them a fixed inty, like a heavy armor, an ontologil sence foreign to antiquy and one that nstras behavr. “Y, Achill is gay, ” he stat fively. No gods and no gay men.
In this brief gui we are gog to answer the qutn ‘’Is Achill gay? We will analyze the sexualy of Achill, the protagonist of the Iliad, a renowned book of classil Achill gay? No, Achill is not gay.
Were they iends, ras, ras--arms or were they lovers followg the mols of Greek homosexual love?