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Conversations: So Are They Cousins Or Not?! The Love of Achilles & Patroclus w/ Charlotte Gregory

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The History of the Mentorship Relationship

It was like a tradition, the male, male relationship. And then that relationship would be a very good social connection for later on in life. So there's a lot of political and military sort of aspects to it as well. That's interesting because even the way you phrased it, it sounds so much like what they try to emphasize in Troy when it comes to those two. Just without the fact that it did often have a sexual connotation.

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