SHOW NOTES:

Trigger warnings: discussions of (literary) rape, gore/graphic violence, the death of LGBTQ+ people.

What do video games, Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, and anime cat girls all have in common? If you guessed "ancient historical homosexual romance", you would be correct!

Who better to start the show off with than the legend himself? This episode looks at the literary footprint of the famous Greek hero, from his debut in the Iliad to the modern retelling The Song of Achilles.

Books Mentioned:

Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar

Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg (writer) + Jim Cheung (artist)

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

The Iliad by Homer

Plato's Symposium by Plato

The Sex Myth by Rachel Hills

Achilleis by Aeschylus

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Achilled by Statius

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

Homosexuality in Greek Myth by Bernard Sergent

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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