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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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Troy Fall of a City

Troy fall of a city is it had a lot of potential and I think it does something really well. It really finds itself at the end in the last few episodes and I'm disappointed. The show was absolutely review bombed because they cast a black man as Achilles. There's a lot of stuff in the show that's very uncomfortable in terms of masculinity and sexuality. So he assaults Helen at one point, which is an entirely new creation.

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