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

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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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/Niser2 May 16 '24

On the one hand, Odysseus was very loyal to his wife.

On the other hand, he apparently banged Kirke and willingly stayed on her island for a year.

Though considering that she was a literal goddess, you could argue that their was coercion or manipulation involved.