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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 Achilles and Chocolates

"It's vital that when we have new representations of the ancient Mediterranean specifically on screen, that we have more than white people," she says. "The idea that they also invented an assault of Helen after having cast a black actor as Achilles is like painful." The last episode has the baby being thrown off the walls of Troy and it was brilliant because I'd not seen something so dark before,' he adds. 'I thought that was genuinely the best moment in the series'

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