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WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
Content Warng: This article discs stanc of enslavement, homophobia and rape. The open foc on a gay relatnship a historil settg, pecially one as amilly ntroversial as that between Achill and Patrocl, was at the time ls-than heard of. A 2020 article tled “Eros and Tragedy: How ‘The Song of Achill’ Revolutnized Classics” terprets the book as actively phg back agast Ancient Greek stereotyp of gay relatnships.
To many young Queer people was one of the first troductns to a posive LGBTQAI+ storyle, where the foc was not on a homophobic society’s effects nor on a paful g out story, but rather adopted many of the trop of tradnal romance novels. This do not only ncern sexual asslt, but homosexualy as well. The act is too close to real-life stanc of rrective rape for fort and reveals how Miller appli a morn nceptn of homophobia and s nsequenc to a ntext which do not belong.