To: allmendream
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.
That's nice. But what are the actual primary sources? Can you post a link, please?
33 posted on
08/30/2011 10:02:09 AM PDT by
Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
The play is Myrmidons by Aeschylus. In it Achilles and Patroclus are clearly lovers and not just the very very very best of classic Greek male (where homosexuality was endemic) friends.
34 posted on
08/30/2011 10:25:13 AM PDT by
allmendream
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To: Antoninus
No less an authority than Plato held up, in his “Symposium”, the example of Achilles and Patroclus as paragons of “romantic love”.
35 posted on
08/30/2011 10:29:23 AM PDT by
allmendream
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