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1. erastes eromenos adored by dutifulriley

   Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018)  

   • Explicit
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   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   28 Jul 2023

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   • Achilles/Patroclus (Hades Video Game)
   • Achilles (Hades Video Game)
   • Patroclus (Hades Video Game)
   • Zagreus (Hades Video Game)
   • Unnamed Shades
   • Gossip
   • Discussion of pederasty
   • assumption of pederasty
   • like this is very much going on the idea that people of mythological Greece look at queer men and go
   • ’’so which of you is lover and which is beloved’’
   • speculation on who tops
   • is probably the more straightforward way to put that
   • unnecessary mention of shakespeare
   • yes he’s out of the time period but it’s hadesgame the fates pulled some strings (ha)
   • some of this is from historical sources and some is me fully making shit up
   • because it’s fanfiction and I gotta fill the gaps
   • don’t use me as an academic source is basically what I’m saying
   • Voyeurism
   • it’s couched in ‘IF someone were to see they might see THIS’ but still
   • Anal Sex
   • Oral Sex
   • Hand Jobs
   • the latter two of those are only brief but still
   • porn with character study
   • porn with fake essay
   • zag is only here for like two paragraphs
   • and YES erastes and eromenos are more complicated than ‘who tops’
   • but ya gotta let me simplify things in the summary for the funnies

   Summary

   The heroes of the past are always fertile ground for discussion, every detail of their lives held in public common, to be picked apart and specified. These things are no longer gossip; they are the honourable pursuit of the academic.

   The question, then, began to be asked: who was erastes and who was eromenos? Erastes, older, protector, fiercer in battle, taking another under his wing, the active partner; the lover. Eromenos, younger, more delicate, learning, the passive partner; the beloved. Paederasteia was understood and codified, but fitting Achilles and Patroclus within its bounds proved problematic.

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   Or, half of Greece— alive and dead— wants to know who tops, and Achilles and Patroclus stolidly pretend the argument isn’t happening.

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