Very different [to Orpheus’] was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his lover Patroclus – his lover and not his beloved (the notion that Patroclus was the beloved one is a foolish error into which Aeschylus has fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still beardless, and far younger).
Plato, Symposium (179e)
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I keep wanting to come up with something witty and funny
But literally nothing can beat “Aeschylus doesn’t know what he’s talking about, let me tell you my headcanon.”
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“this one is OBVIOUSLY the bottom, he was much smaller and prettier and less beardy”
I MEAN HOW ARE WE EVEN HAVING THE SAME DISGUSTING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE ACTIVE/PASSIVE SPLIT AND ITS BIZARRE BRAND OF HOMOPHOBIA MORE THAN 2000 YEARS LATER
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