Petition to standardize the 1, I and l characters as unique symbols
I will acquise, with having Only read the Iliad and not read the stories where Achilles "falls madly in love" with Deidemia, it's very easy to interpret this man as being gay* and plainly not actually interested in women as anything beyond a status symbol. Sure he "acquires" women from Lesbos for himself and Patroclus, and is upset when Briseis is taken from him but it's easy to read that as expectation/obligation and his pride being hurt, respectively, moreso than him being genuinely interested in women.
Patroclus, well, i don't think we spend enough time with him to know but I feel like it could go either way, with him being either gay or bisexual
*i am aware that our modern terminology and understanding of sexuality is not the same as sexuality from any other time but for simplicity sakes i'm using gay and bisexual
I hate Agamemnon but why did clydo have to kill Cassandra too
99% of all murders committed by women in ancient greek plays are completely justified
The saying “butt naked” is so odd. Imagine a common phrase for being dressed like “pants clothed”
#52 for your ask game?
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Idk abt y’all but one of my favorite things about Homers literature is thinking less about morality, since the culture and context the text was written in was wildly different from our own
This concludes my thesis on why Odysseus and Achilles are my favorite
Love how sky is just there living rent free in Victor’s head… guess you could say he needed a
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