Narcissus and Ameinias - Gay love story

  • 14 years ago
Eros the love god punishes boys who are cruel to their lovers. Where is he now when we need him?

This being ancient Greece, those lovers were never girls. They got the leftovers. Other men got the young men, to make them more manly. Those who spent their time chasing skirts were thought soft and feminine. No one wanted that, not when in a year or two they would be old enough to pick up weapons and go into battle for their lives and the safety of the city. Clearly these youths were anything but children, and were old enough to be of legal age in most civilized countries today.

Of all the gay Greek myths, this story of Narcissus (the original one, which Ovid butchered by adding the bit about the nymph Echo) is the one that comes closest to many modern gay love stories, where the lovers resemble each other. What the Greeks have to say about such relationships, if we go by the fate of Narcissus, is that they are sterile and selfish. We, of course, know better.

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