Contents:
- WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
- ACRDG TO HISTORY, WAS ACHILL GAY? HERE IS WHY THE LEGENDARY WARRR MAY HAVE BEEN A HOMOSEXUAL
- IS ACHILL GAY?
WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
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. Makg them homosexual impos upon them a fixed inty, like a heavy armor, an ontologil sence foreign to antiquy and one that nstras behavr.
One of the most asked qutns of all time is: was Achill gay?
ACRDG TO HISTORY, WAS ACHILL GAY? HERE IS WHY THE LEGENDARY WARRR MAY HAVE BEEN A HOMOSEXUAL
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. “Y, Achill is gay, ” he stat fively.
No gods and no gay men. Early archaeology took place durg an era which homosexualy was owned upon and regard as s. Homosexuals were sulted and regard as effemate (as this was also an age when women were still nsired "weak").
Homosexualy was not a pot of ntentn as has been the more recent past.
IS ACHILL GAY?
Achill Gay. In twenty-first-century adaptatns of the story of the Trojan War, Achill and Patroklos are often portrayed as gay lovers. 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.
But how has homophobia fluenced the readg of the Iliad?