For LGBT history month gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?' before his talk this week.
Contents:
- ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
- WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
- ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
- ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
- 19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
Explore the trigug qutn of whether Alexanr the Great was gay and disver the evince for both sis regardg Alexanr the Great's homosexualy. * alexander the grat gay *
Yet, to give Stone his due, he was prepared to take on the ch the welter of homophobic cricism he received for pictg his hero close homoerotic enunter wh the Persian nuch. For ancient Greeks there was no ntradictn between youthful homoeroticism and predomantly or wholly heterosexual adult proclivy and activy.
Alexanr the Great’s Relatnships wh MenAlexanr’s relatnship wh HephatnAlexanr’s relatnship wh BagoasAlexanr the Great’s Marriag and ChildrenAlexanr’s Sexual Orientatn Explaed by the Cultural Aspect of GreeksWas Alexanr the Great Gay or Straight? One of the greatt nquerors, Alexanr the Great, has been the foc of nsirable njecture, and the qutn of whether or not he was gay remas one of the most ntent.
Alexanr’s close ti wh men like Hephatn and Bagoas have been terpreted by some as proof of his homosexualy, while others have argued that they were merely close panns. Another mon argument agast Alexanr’s claimed homosexualy is that he was married many tim to different women and had at least one child om them, Alexanr IV.
WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
THE GAY LOVERS OF ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON,known as ‘THE GREAT’Alexanr the Great Note on Alexanr, the movie by Oliver Stone When Oliver Stone was thkg of dog a movie on the life of the legendary son of kg Phillip II of Macedon and queen Olympias, one unexpected obstacle stood his way: the Greek… * alexander the grat gay *
That is why whether Alexanr the Great was gay or not is still an open qutn today. This clus whether Alexanr the Great was gay. It’s still worth notg that this is not ncrete evince to suggt that Alexanr and Hephatn had a romantic or homosexual relatnship.
Plutarch – Life of Alexanr (Part 7 of 7)Alexanr the Great’s Marriag and ChildrenAs unterevince to the claim that Alexanr was gay, many pot to his many marriag to women and the children he had wh them. Such pairgs weren’t tomatilly seen as signs of gay or bisexual orientatn, but rather as a natural part of life.
ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
The close iendships often characterized ancient Greek society, and that’s why there wasn’t always sexual tensn between Alexanr the Great Gay or Straight?
In ncln, is impossible to state wh certaty whether or not Alexanr the Great was gay or even bisexual, spe evince suggtg he had timate ti wh men. Homosexual relatns were ordary amongst the upper class, pecially the form of perasty. Nohels, homosexual men of the same class experienced social stigma as the passive role was more effemate.
As the two did not engage sex ancient thors praised Alexanr’s self-ntrol whereas morn advot, like Jam Davidson, e as nformatn of homosexualy. Hephatn secured high-rankg posns the army and, Troy, the two ma sacrific at the shr of Achill and Patrocl: two other likely lovers that suffered history’s homosexual erasure. Advot for Alexanr’s homosexualy argue that he yearned for children wh his lover, Hephatn, and utilised the Persian prcs as surrogat given that the men’s offsprg would be s.
ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
It is unclear whether the Sa weddgs are a polil ceremony or a secret gay lovers’ unn.
The ia of an LGBT or gay in was created the 20th century and is a person revered by the LGBT muny for beg a champn of LGBT rights and/or beg a notor LGBT person themselv. Employg a broad fn, Alexanr uld be nsired an LGBT in for beg a remarkable person that likely engaged homosexual relatnships.
Yet, if all necsary morn creria are applied, this may not be the se; Alexanr did not further acceptance of homosexual relatns between social class. Sce the sexual revolutn over half a century ago, Alexanr’s sexual inty has been reclaimed by liberal Wtern muni as a gay hero.
19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
THE GAY LOVERS OF ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON, known as ‘THE GREAT’. A group of homophobic Greek lawyers even threatened to sue Warner Bros.
The lawyers, tramplg their own tellectual herage unrfoot, sent a letter to the stud mandg they state the tle creds that the movie was a fictnal surroundg the “gayns” of Alexanr has a precent. A uple of years prevly, a mob of hundreds of Macedonian Greeks stormed an archeologil symposium after a speaker prented a paper on the homosexualy of Alexanr.