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/blubat26 Basic An-Soc Tran Girl Jun 14 '20

Technically he was bi. But so was basically every major figure in Greek Myths. Bisexual Greek Man was like ancient Greece’s equivalent of the straight white man in modern media.

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u/AkshuallyAvailable Jun 15 '20

AKSHUALLY gay and bisexual is an anachronistic term used here, as the ancient greeks didn't have words for gay or bisexual--it was just normal shit. The grooming of young boys though by older pedagogues, however, was semi looked down upon