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Achilles and Patroclus are commonly understood to be homosexual, but this pairing of two fully grown adult male lovers does not fit the norm of pederasty in greek antiquity - did earlier, Homeric Greece have different sexualities, or was this couple a literary outlier?

by /u/Basilikon in /r/AskHistorians

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