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Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Achilles Could Rock a Dress

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The Achilead - A History of Achilles's Life

The story about achilles's time in the court of the king of sky rose as a dancing girl, goes at least as far back as classical greece. The most complete source on it is this very late roman source, mustatius, who's telling the story? I don't know. 700 years or so after the classical greeks, approximately. We have talked a lot about the continuity of that such as we know it in the last pisode. So there wis a reason i wanted to include this. It's because the achilead gives us a really poignant look at the relationship between thetis and achilles,. And the pivotal moments before

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