Chuds are upset because Netflix says ancient gayreeks were homogays

Hephaestion and Alexandros were dear friends and roommates the way your parents used to say your uncle and his friend who always came to Thanksgiving were.

Also Big H was the top taller and studlier and it's alleged in multiple sources that when Darius' mother met them for the first time she thought he was Alexander.

there were threads about this when it happened a year ago

didn't the greeks routinely r*pe younger boys

mmt of when Leonidis refers to athenians as "boy-lovers". Bc they were gay af too, butt spartans (at least in the film 300) werent unlike the athenians. Greek was always af and it still is today. There's a reason that people say "greeks are freaks"

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Why is he an aryan blue eyes nazi propaganda figure?

Rightoids knowing nothing about history, what a surprise. After philosophy, bussy-blasting is literally what the ancient Greeks are most known for, c'mon.

Greeks and Romans weren't gay in the modern sense they thought of s*x like eating too much food lmao. If you were a bottom or went after boys they definitely weren't into that but if you were topping slaves that was a okay because slaves aren't human lol. If you were having s*x with other citizens that was also taboo but again rich people are degens no matter the era so we don't fully know.

Lets be honest, the vast majority ancient greek homosexuality would be considered pedarastry and 'grooming' in today's terms. In no society, other than our present one, was an adult male recieving s*x from another man seen as virtuous.

When chuds figure out that the inventors of Western civilization were chronic boy enjoyers

I think most of the claims about Achilles came from his enemy's side. He wasn't just gay, but an elective bottom.

modern historians love saying old civilizations were into gay homosex like 50% minimum, reality is it was probably like 3% or less. Yes it happened but it was never more than a rare, maybe uncommon thing at best because otherwise that percent of deviation leads to a species killing itself.

They were libertarianismc misogynist fascists ofc they were gay

Yeah no they were just really good buds!

Hephaestion died suddenly in October 324 BCE, and his death plunged his close friend Alexander the Great into grief. Alexander mourned Hephaestion for days, refused food, and cut his hair. He then organized an extravagant funeral for his friend in Babylon

-Alexander personally drove the funeral carriage

-Alexander ordered the sacred flame in a temple to be put out, an act usually reserved for the death of the Great King himself

-Alexander held games and festivals in Hephaestion's honor

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Arrian states that all his sources agree that "… for two whole days after Hephaestion's death Alexander tasted no food and paid no attention in any way to his bodily needs, but lay on his bed now crying lamentably, now in the silence of grief." Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire, and Arrian tells us that "Many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man …" The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion's place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he "… wished Hephaestion's name to be preserved always in connexion with it, so Hephaestion's Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion's image continued to be carried before it."

Alexander sent messengers to the oracle at Siwa, to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came, saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased, and "… from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero's rites."He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion's memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, "To the Hero Hephaestion".

Hey, he's just my buddy but can we maybe worship him as a god?

Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents. It is difficult to give a modern equivalent for such a huge amount, but we know that in Hephaestion's time, the daily wage of a skilled worker was two or three drachmas. Today, in western Europe, 2008, that would be between £50 and £100, so the lowest possible value for 1 drachma in modern terms is £25. We know there were 6,000 drachmas in a talent, so even at the most conservative estimate, Hephaestion's funeral would have cost £1,500,000,000. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon, with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion's friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion's honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics, and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before, both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, "… as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation …", to design the pyre for Hephaestion.

Just a small multi-billion dollar donation

The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape, and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures, and with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches, with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle, and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth, the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander's own death.

This is like building the Burj Khalifa and then setting it on fire for your friend's funeral.

One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.

Put your holy fire burning for centuries or millennia out for fricks sake my friend is dead have some respect.

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They're always going on about greek towel boy bussy though

Thank you!!! Couldnt watch after that.

Nobody argues that there was no sodomy but why do they have to film romantic sunlit moments of hair stroking and talking about feelings?

Homocracy moment

I have more problem with them making Alexander blond.

I have a feeling a big sportsball player is going to have a Netflix about being a strag and everyone is going to act shocked

Greeks weren't just gay. They were gay libertarians.

He has three wives and at least two kids, so at worst he was bisexual. But of course Netflix would try and make him seem homo

Imagine watching soyflix goyslop

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