Contents:
- WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
- ENTENDA POR QUE 'A CANçãO AQUIL' RETRATA O GAY O FAMOSO HERóI DA 'ILíADA'
- AQUIL ERA GAY? O QUE SABEMOS DA LERATURA CLáSSI
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.
ENTENDA POR QUE 'A CANçãO AQUIL' RETRATA O GAY O FAMOSO HERóI DA 'ILíADA'
” 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.
Makg them homosexual impos upon them a fixed inty, like a heavy armor, an ontologil sence foreign to antiquy and one that nstras behavr. In twenty-first-century adaptatns of the story of the Trojan War, Achill and Patroklos are often portrayed as gay lovers.
AQUIL ERA GAY? O QUE SABEMOS DA LERATURA CLáSSI
Breakg out of the “gay” vers “straight” dichotomy.
Today we generally tend to thk of people as beg eher “gay” or “straight, ” but this is not how the ancient Greeks generally thought of sexualy. The fact that Aisch uld treat as axmatic that Achill and Patroklos were a homosexual relatnship a speech that was meant to be livered ont of an Athenian jury clearly monstrat that, by the time Aisch was wrg the late fourth century BCE, this mt have been a fairly wily accepted terpretatn. Male Miller peru as ntas quantas vez l a “Ilíada” ant crever “A Canção Aquil”, sua releura gay sobre a Guerra Troia, que aba chegar às livrarias brasileiras após viralizar no TikTok.
Com o tempo, porém, sa terpretação foi apagada propóso, por homofobia”, diz a tora, lembrando releuras o “Troia”, trelado por Brad Pt, em que os personagens são primos. Outro elemento que a tora diz crer ter impulsnado o livro é a homossexualida dos personagens, um elemento que atrai da vez mais os leor jovens, prcipalmente no TikTok, que foi uma a bobagens a uma máqua porosa venr livros. “Romanc gays sempre termavam em sastre ou morte.