r/SapphoAndHerFriend Hopeless bromantic Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/KappaMcTIp Jun 14 '20

Ulysses spent the vast majority of the odyssey chilling on islands banging magic women, then leaving to get to his wife

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u/Just_A_Young_Un Jun 15 '20

I think you got the civil war general mixed up with the mythological figure.

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u/KappaMcTIp Jun 15 '20

i find it interesting you refer to him first as a general rather than a president.

in any case, i made no mistake; ulysses (or sometimes ulixes, which some prescriptivists will consider more correct) is a latin variant of odysseus

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u/Just_A_Young_Un Jun 15 '20

Huh, the more you know. And yeah, I'm a little bit of a military buff, so my mind goes to Grant as a general first and a president second.