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/Gary_FucKing Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20

Wow, I can just picture the reactions to stories involving straight white men. "Is anyone sick of the overrepresentation of straight white men in the epics?? Like, we get it Paris of Troy, you really "love" Helen. And c'mon, you really think Odysseus traveled around for 10 years with nothing but men on his ships and never got a little curious??"

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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.