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Were Nisus and Euryalus gay lovers? (Aeneid)

jumblebumble

I would be interested to hear your thoughts. :smile:

Maybe.

Probabaly.. Euralyus is a bit of a idiot though. They could've so easily got away, bought a farm together outside the city walls in thier old age, etc.. :tongue:

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But no, he has to go waltzing back in there, for the sake of a little bit of war loot!

Sure...why not.

They all liked a bit of bummage in them days.

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kiss_me_now9

Yeah, definatly.

And fwiw, I think all of them (the Romans/Greeks) liked a little bit of the naughty :wink:

As far as I remember, the Romans (?) weren't bothered by homosexuality and it was quite normal to have gay prostitution.

Reply 6

Aphrodite_Venus

Definitely! I loved how Euryalus ran back with his shiny armour, he might as well have stuck a bullseye on his head! Silly beautiful, delicate-as-a-flower young man!

Reply 7

jumblebumble

Aphrodite_Venus

Definitely! I loved how Euryalus ran back with his shiny armour, he might as well have stuck a bullseye on his head! Silly beautiful, delicate-as-a-flower young man!

Haha

What a foolish poppy-like soldier!

Reply 8

suaviorXchu

I like to think so. xD It does say they were 'one in love'... I think.

And yeah, homosexuality wasn't such an issue in those days. A young boy would often bottom to an older man as part of the becoming an adult process.

Reply 9

Wissam24

Yes they were. Totally for each other.

Reply 10

beesbees

I love the descriptions of them. So blatently wanted each other.
From David West translation:

"the blood flowed over his beautiful body"
"a scarlet flower"
"like poppies"

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Reply 11

LithiumX

They were such good friends they loved each other... it was quite common in those days - cf. pederasty in 5th/4th Century Athens, Sparta, and also Patroclus and Achilles.

You can't appreciate the Aeneid until you've at least read the Iliad.

Reply 12

olibishop

haha yeah it makes sense to think so
it's such a crap story though- two guys go out and supposedly take out a huge rutilian army who are all so drunk that nobody notices that everyone around them are being slaughtered, then they try and take out another whole army- their whole mission is pointless

Reply 13

Trebinom

It's clear that 'the shooting of light arrows and the throwing of the javelin' or him being 'swift with his light arrow and his javelin' is phallic imagery.