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 OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
- ALEX THE ASTRONT: 'I DIDN’T WANT TO TELL ANYONE THAT I WAS GAY, LET ALONE LNS OF STRANGERS'
ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay? For LGBT history month, gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?
I thk he probably was gay.
ALEX THE ASTRONT: 'I DIDN’T WANT TO TELL ANYONE THAT I WAS GAY, LET ALONE LNS OF STRANGERS'
It was supposed to say ‘Alexanr the Gay’, but someone translated wrong to ‘Alexanr the Great. The qutn of Alexanr’s homosexualy, once the prerve of scholars such as Tarn whose termed attempt 1948, ‘to straighten the matter out’ (no pun tend, surely) and close future discsn down, met only wh Badian’s hatchet-job of a dissectn of Tarn’s own pedantic nservatism a later.