The Last of My Pride Specials for This Year

Heracles had lovers all over the ancient Greek world, and a whole collection of them were men. These are their stories and, let's be honestly, brief mentions and anecotes. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Wikipedia entries on Heracles and various lovers, with sourcing confirmed via Theoi.com; Topos Text entries on Abderus, Adonis, Photius' Biblioteca; Heracles by Emma Stafford; Plutarch's Erotikos; reading of Theocritus' Idyll XIII, translated by JM Edmonds.

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