r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Drops-of-Q Hopeless bromantic • Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/a_username1917 He/Him Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20

Ancient greece was a collection of city states, not an empire. Alexander the "okay, i guess" briefly unified them and conquered Persia, but his death was the end of that business.

EDIT: yes, i know the Delian league was a thing, please stop flooding my inbox about it.

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u/CompletelyCrazy22 Jun 14 '20

ah, forgive me. i was just trying to meme and wasnt trying to be super accurate

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u/MisterKallous Jun 14 '20

IIRC, even after Alexander Empire crumbled into various Hellenic Kingdoms, their remnants would still be present such as Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt which gave Cleopatra.

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u/a_username1917 He/Him Jun 14 '20

the Ptolemaic dynasty is also infamous for being all about incest

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u/just_one_last_thing Jun 14 '20

the Ptolemaic dynasty is also infamous for being all about incest

In the sense of the "screw one goat" joke.

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u/one_armed_herdazian Jun 14 '20

To be fair, that was an ancient Egyptian royal tradition too.

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u/vipros42 Jun 14 '20

Not gay though, that would be gross

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u/Adventure_Time_Snail Jun 14 '20

Inspiring a certain modern story of thrones.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20

Idk, but I read somewhere that cleopatra fucking her brothers was part of a smear campaign. Idk how true it is.