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1 Greek mythologia  
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2 Amazons  
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3 Plato  
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4 Spoken-word versions - audio files  





5 needs citing & incorporating  
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6 Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality  
1 comment  




7 Requested move 23 December 2023  
11 comments  




8 Homoeroticism x Sex and gender  
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Talk:Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology




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Greek mythologia

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In "Greece" , I think that "Orpheus and Calais (one of Boreads)" is better than "Orpheus and the Thracians". At least in Japan, Calais is famous as a beloved-boy of Orpheus. Hadrianvs et antinovs (talk) 02:05, 10 February 2008 (UTC)hadrianvs et antinovs[reply]

One is good, two are better. Haiduc (talk) 13:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amazons

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How does this myth relate to GLBT issues? The Amazons rejected typical (or at least Greek) gender roles for women, but I don't think that's the same as being homosexual, transgender, or bisexual. Unless this article is intended to include transvestite stories as well? 97.116.17.199 (talk) 21:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Amazons were clearly transgender in every way short of gender reassignment surgery. They lived, fought, and often dressed and loved as what ancient Greeks would consider men, full time. A transvestite is someone who cross-dresses, usually on an occasional basis, but does not live full time in the entire social role of a different gender.Markwiki (talk) 04:34, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plato

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Plato's Dialogues includes a description of the origin of human beings, love, and sex in which there was a third gender, androgyns, and all three human genders reproduced asexually. But after the gods split every human being into two halves, the males and females became pairs of homosexual soul-mates, and the androgyns became pairs of heterosexual soul-mates. This is philosophy, not necessarily "mythology" as such, so should it be mentioned in this page or not? 97.116.17.199 (talk) 22:15, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would save Plato's Dialogues for a philosophy page since it covers humanity as a whole. Most of these entries seem directed at specific characters more so than the state of being of the entire human race.Markwiki (talk) 04:34, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spoken-word versions - audio files

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needs citing & incorporating

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A number of deities and semi-divine heroes with changing or ambiguous genders are present in Greek and Roman myths. Hermaphroditos, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes is a hermaphrodite, a term derived from his name.[citation needed] Phanes, is the primordial, androgynous deity of love and procreation who hatched from the World Egg during the creation of the world.[citation needed] Tiresias was a male prophet who was turned into a woman for 7 years.[citation needed] Agdistis, a Phrygian deity born with both male and female genitalia, but later castrated so that she became female.[citation needed] Amazons, a nation of warrior women[citation needed]

I have objections to several points above:
  • Attis is not transgender. Him castrating himself didn't make him change gender. In fact, he died shortly afterwards.
  • In which myth is Acantha shown to be bisexual?
  • What do the Amazons have to do with the topic?
  • Regarding Virtus, I didn't see any mention on his page about him changing gender
  • I also didn't see it about Pales, as his page just says that different sources mention him as either male or female (not that he undergoes a gender change). --168.228.86.39 (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 September 2023 and 22 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Beetleinabox (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Robynbest (talk) 01:47, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 December 2023

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Rough consensus to move to "Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology" (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 06:23, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]


LGBT themes in Greek and Roman mythology → ? – Following recent discussion at what at the previously-titled LGBT in the Ottoman Empire, the term "LGBT" may be anachronistic to use when talking about ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Not sure what the best title would be. (Apologies if this or a similar discussion has already been posted before) GnocchiFan (talk) 17:09, 23 December 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 17:31, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  1. "Anachronism" is not really at issue here, because the article is using "LGBT" to describe modern analysis / study of the material rather than attributing the LGBT construct to Antiquity.
  2. Modern scholarship seems more likely to use a term like "Queer" over "LGBT" (though I'm not sure where Wikipedia style and conventions fall on that point).
A more crucial issue with the title seems to be that it's not very reflective of the article's content, which in turn seems to lack focus and consistency.
The "Sexuality" section of this article seems to just be a list of myths that feature homosexual relationships. The "Sex and gender" section, on the other hand, more genuinely discusses "themes" as promised, except a large portion of it is opinions of philosophers or traits of gods rather than mythological topics.
Perhaps splitting this off into different articles like, "Homosexuality in Greek and Roman Mythology" and "Trans and Intersexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome" would provide a better path forward? — Uiscefada (talk) 21:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
yeah the 'anachronism' argument is at odds with WP:MODERNLANGblindlynx 23:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find where that appears in that essay (not a policy, BTW), but Uiscefada's first point seems to cover the anachronism claim. The topic is about modern scholarship, not whether the Greeks and Romans would have had any idea what "LGBT" means. P Aculeius (talk) 14:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The title of the article refers to "LGBT themes in Greek and Roman mythology", so it is certainly not using LGBT to describe modern analysis but to describe the mythology itself. That still might be fine, but there is some ambiguity—when describing a "theme" as "in" some mythology—between emic and etic descriptions. Srnec (talk) 20:54, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Homoeroticism x Sex and gender

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I just saw that the title of the article was changed to "Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology", but still kept the section "Sex and gender" (Transgender, Androgynes and Intersex). Since homoeroticism is about same-sex attraction and not about gender variance issues, I don't understand why the "Sex and gender" section remains here. One suggestion would be to create a new article titled, I don't know, "Sex and gender in Greek and Roman mythology" or "Gender variance in Greek and Roman mythology", or something like that (and, of course, include it in the categories "Classical mythology", "LGBT themes in Greek mythology" and "LGBT themes in mythology". --168.228.86.39 (talk) 22:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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