LGBTQ Nation on MSNOpinion

Elliot Page might play the mythological hero Achilles & the right is losing its mind

Conservative pundits are outraged that a trans male actor has been cast in the role in an upcoming Odyssey film.
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Life-Size Mural of Trojan War Hero Achilles Discovered in France

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near Reims, France.
LGBTQ Nation on MSNOpinion

The right’s outrage over Elliot Page’s casting in ‘The Odyssey’ obscures Achilles’ own queerness

Achilles has been queer for centuries. Making him straight would be the real revisionism.
SuperHeroHype

The Odyssey’s Casting Backlash Doesn’t Hold Up Under Any Scrutiny

Over the past week or so, backlash against the movie has been building up by a specific part of the internet, angry about some casting picks.
The Guardian

Achilles, my hero

Heroes, Traitors and Supermen by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Fourth Estate £25, pp596 'Whatever happened to all the heroes?' Almost two thousand years before the Stranglers set that little poser, a Greek by ...