To: NYer
I was with the author until “Achilles and Patroclus”.
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08/29/2011 3:17:25 PM PDT by
allmendream
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To: allmendream
There's nothing in the Iliad to suggest that Achilles and Patroclus are lovers--in fact both were sleeping with captive women. Later Greeks may have read something sexual into their friendship but it isn't in Homer. Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon starts when Agamemnon takes his prize, a captured woman.
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