prokopetz:

chantillyxlacey:

chantillyxlacey:

I don’t know which idea upsets me more: that there isn’t a secret stash of ancient Greek and Roman pornographic fanfiction or that there IS and the archaeological community has been keeping it hidden all this time

i made this post two years ago and was just reminded of it from someone reblogging it randomly

it’s still as applicable as ever tbh

There are literally surviving accounts of Plato getting into heated arguments about whether Achilles topped or bottomed in his relationship with Patroclus. Like, there were public callings-out and everything:

“Very different was the reward of the true love of Achilles
towards his lover Patroclus – his lover and
not his love (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 younger far).”

 – Plato, Symposium (trans.
Benjamin Jowett)