Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

slyrider:

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asculan:

smurflewis:

hephaistionisawesome:

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philalexandros-heph:

Reading the iliad is so crazy because like alexander the great was reading this story over 2000 years ago?? he probably wrote fanfiction about achilles and patroclus and told hephaestion his headcanons?? life is absurd

HE DID THO. HE ACTUALLY DID.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS HELLA GAY AND WROTE GAY FANFICTION OF THE GAYEST PEOPLE IN ANCIENT GREECE.

I’m not even kidding. Achilles and Patriclus were hella gay Ancient Greek warriors; like the Illiad (the number one source for all things Greek) has half the book dedicated to their relationship.

Alexander the Great wrote 57 papers about them. HE WROTE 57 ESSAYS ON THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND WHAT HE THOUGHT THEY WOULD DO IF THEY LIVED IN HIS TIME PERIOD.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT WROTE MODERN AU GAY FANFICTION

And it gets EVEN GAYER

He constantly refers to himself and his “guy pal” Hephaestion as having the same relationship as Achilles and Patroclus

He literally talks about how he and his best friend were like WELL
KNOWN ANCIENT LOVERS.

Don’t think it can get gayer?
THINK AGAIN

Alexander and Hephaestion visit the graves of Achilles and Patroclus and laid down flowers in honor for them, stripped naked, and ran a race in their honor. After words they SENT THEIR SERVANT AWAY TO SPEND THE NIGHT ALONE AT THE MEMORIAL.

This isn’t a myth, this is actual documented history. It’s all true. I don’t have sources because I learned about this a few years ago in my history class in college but google it I promise you.

Wow, 57 essays. Alexander must have had a lot of free time on his hands.

The reason you don’t have sources is that this didn’t happen.

I TOOK 15 MINUTES

Cartledge, Paul. Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past. Woodstock, NY; New York: The Overlook Press, 2004

Wilcken, Ulrich, Alexander the Great, W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (March 1997)

~follow for more soft historical homosexuality~

Alexander the Great lived in a time when travel was slow and he got to travel in a carriage, meaning he didn’t have to worry about controlling a horse. He had plenty of free time to read and write, there was little else to do on long carriage rides. 

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