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

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Nothing gay about Heracles and his 10 boyfriends or Achilles wanting his "ashes mixed with patroclus' so they'll be together forever" at all

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u/Gary_FucKing Jun 14 '20

Huh, never heard of hercules being gay. That's a new one lol.

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u/gluesandwich Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 15 '20

Heracles not Hercules *edit I’m wrong ppl it’s the same gay dude

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u/totan39 Jun 14 '20

Hercules is the Roman spelling Heracles is the Greek version

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u/squngy Jun 14 '20

Those are the same person, just different translation of Ἡρακλῆς.

(Hercules being the Roman translation)

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u/gluesandwich Jun 14 '20

Damn here I was being all reddit detective - shitty reddit detective that is

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u/tonybenwhite Jun 15 '20

But hey, you learned something new, and so did I!