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Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Achilles Could Rock a Dress

Ancient History Fangirl

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A Kindly Lot Had Brought Me the Wedlock That It Offered in the Fields of Heaven

Mestatius gives us insight into what changed achilles's mind in the achilead. What god imbued his heart with fraud and drew him to stubborn purpose when he was held by lycimedes' daughter didamea? Seizing the moment, his mother purposely accosts him trying to make pretence of dancing and join hand in sport amongst these maidens. So she's asking her son to disguise himself as a girl in the palace ofLycimedes. And she's offering him her own clothes. She can't bear to lose him. It's not her fault that he's mortal. If she had her way, he wouldn't be immortal

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