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
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.
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. 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.