Was Achill gay? Twter ers bate after rurfaced 2011 book!

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. But how has homophobia fluenced the readg of the Iliad?

ACRDG TO HISTORY, WAS ACHILL GAY? HERE IS WHY THE LEGENDARY WARRR MAY HAVE BEEN A HOMOSEXUAL

However, when examg the relatnship between Achill and Patrocl, scholars over the centuri have bated whether their relatnship fs wh our nceptn of homosexualy today – many scholars argue that the Greeks did not have the same labels for sexualy that we do now. She embellish the ambigui of the Iliad, takg Homer’s plot and clarifyg a morn light, whilst avoidg the specific label of ‘homosexual’ the narrative - arguably this is never clarified, though is certa that Miller tends for Achill and Patrocl’ relatnship to be more timate than mere pannship. Even DC Comics, Achill is rurrected as Wonr Woman’s male homosexual unterpart and has a relatnship wh the rernatn of Patrocl.

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.

THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL

Beyond intifyg wh characters, the artistic mediums and their exemplifitn of a homosexual relatnship helps reimage the heroic ial.

This isn’t a se for the advocy of prentism, we are not simply tryg to project our morn embrace of the LGBTQI + muny onto a historil time and story whereby homosexualy eher did not exist or was owned upon, we are aimg for que the oppose fact. The stigma and disapproval of homosexualy, acrdg to historians David F Greenberg and Marcia H Bystryn, did not arise until late antiquy when all sexual pleasur were looked upon negatively, practilly a lennia after the creatn of “The Iliad” the 8th Century BC.

Greenberg and Bystryn outle their paper, “Christian Intolerance of Homosexualy”, that “male homosexualy has been regard monly as havg arisen as an exprsn of the raship of arms, among noble warrrs of the Heroic Age”.

IS ACHILL GAY?

Albe the dynamics and the maniftatn of homosexual sir were known to be que different the ancient world than they are today, but the attractn between same sex was prent. Early archaeology took place durg an era which homosexualy was owned upon and regard as s.