
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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Achilles and Pachikas in Aristophanes
Aristophanes has these characters who are both like the, they're both clearly in relationships with men or have had relationships with men. But they are both being sort of made fun of in this play because they have taken on the passive role. They're basically women. He calls them like they dress like women, all these different things like it really does emphasize the way that for all the Greeks had these like ideals that we can see as being kind of progressive in our eyes. It was just different. I would love to hear more about Troy fall of a city and Hades but my listeners want me to play Hades which is why I'm not playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
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