2006-10-04 14:57:33 · 7 answers · asked by bryan_56th 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
You call Akhilleus gay, you'll see that his spear is made of good bronze and you won't like the way he sticks it in you.
And if you don't know that Patroklos was his wife, you really don't understand diddle to the Iliad.
2006-10-04 21:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off as someone mentioned Patroclus lets point out that Patroclus was Achilles cousin. While I enjoy the story of troy put forth in the Iliad it only seems that it would be fair to say that Achilles being gay or Bi would have been irrelevant,as it would have been to any Greek alive at the time the story is supposed to take place. The Greeks did not have the hang ups about sexuality that we carry around as the baggage of our puritan past,it would have been perfectly acceptale for him to enjoy the company of both,although even in that society a woman would have had to take precedence over a man for obvious reasons. And in the society at the time young warriors were often apprenticed by accomplished warriors on a one on one basis,and it was not unheard of or uncommon for those relationships to have a sexual component. I hope that answers the question well enough.
2006-10-04 15:41:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not gay in the modern sense, but the friend he loves, Patroclus, gets killed by Hector. Yes, it's a relationship, but no to the strictly male-oriented bit, because the whole beginning to the Iliad is him arguing with Agamemnon over some woman he likes to...
Yeah. Lets not get graphic: The battle scenes are gruesome enough.
2006-10-04 15:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by Reinvention 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in no way nonetheless of somebody's call as being gay or lesbian! a acceptance is a acceptance is a acceptance. And a rose by the different call nonetheless smells as candy. My Sons call is Alex, six ft 5 inches, physique builder, wood worker, and hockey participant. he's so a procedures from gay because of the fact the guy in the moon is from a KFC. Bye.
2016-12-26 10:00:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read the illiad, and I don't think achilleus is gay.
2006-10-04 15:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by Heidi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have already read illiad, but I don't believe that he is a gay....
2006-10-07 23:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Greek- think about it.
2006-10-04 14:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋