Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay? - Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology - Universy of Liverpool

Contents:

• ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
• 19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
• WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER
• ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
• BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO

ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?

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 GAY LOVERS

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.

It is unclear whether the Sa weddgs are a polil ceremony or a secret gay lovers’ unn.

19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE

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. 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.

WAS ALEXANR THE GREAT GAY? THE ACTUAL ANSWER

Stone’s movie uld have been done much better; he uld have portrayed Alexanr as we know him historilly, gay lovers and all, but Col Farrell was not the bt choice to play Alexanr.

When the DVD was released, Stone attempted to salvage the movie by rearrangg the scen and takg out much of the homosexual ntent. This relatnship rembled morn gay love and beme legendary for ’s passn.

What may seem normal to some of today, the gay love of one man for another, ancient days was owned upon as a threat to masculy and the stcture of society.

ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?

Alexanr saw their love as emulatg that heroic love between Achill and Patrocl, another ancient uple that morn gay upl n look to as an example of votn. Edorial Board, World History of Male Love, “Famo Homosexuals”, The Gay Lovers of Alexanr the Great, 2000 <> Jt for the rerd, to any of my Greek rears, always remember this, the greatt man Greek History was a homosexual (ο μεγαλύτερος άνθρωπος στην ελληνική ιστορία ήταν ομοφυλόφιλος), not a perast like many ancient Greeks, but a homosexual who had a male lover of equal age, which ma a huge difference the Ancient Greek World.

BREAKG GROUND WH A GAY MOVIE HERO

It happens to be one of my favore morn gay art piec. The Importance of Evince the Heated Debate on Homosexualy Ancient Egypt.

Roman Law and the Banng of ‘Passive’ Homosexualy.