To: allmendream
It was well accepted in Homers time and shortly after that the two were lovers. Alexander the Great, for example, took it as a given when he and his lover went to a shrine for the two of them.
Alexander lived some 4-700 years after Homer. Hardly a short time. What evidence do you have that that the butt-buddy connection was established in Homer's time? I have never seen any such.
31 posted on
08/30/2011 9:04:30 AM PDT by
Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
In the culture Homer wrote for, in the language he wrote in, it was almost universally accepted that the two were lovers - and it was not at all thought a strange thing - it being Greece and all.
In classic Greek culture it was even opined that “love” could only exist between two men - because women were so inferior.
Moreover Homer was not the only source - Achilles being a semi-historic mythological figure before during and after Homer wrote - other sources (a play for example) clearly showed the two were lovers.
32 posted on
08/30/2011 9:11:00 AM PDT by
allmendream
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