Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Jason. And today we're talking about the

Greek mythological figures, Achilles and Patriclus.

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We have some content warnings before we get into this episode.

This episode will contain descriptions of war, including mentions of PTSD and sexual slavery

within a war context.

It will also include mentions of grief, including self-harm behaviours, mentions of sex, including

sex between adults and minors, negative attitudes to sex work, and modern homophobia in scholarship.

If any of that sounds like something that you don't want to listen to, please feel free to skip

this episode and select a different one.

As stated up top, Achilles and Patriclus are Greek mythological figures,

heroes of the decade-long Trojan war fought between the Trojans and the Greeks, after the

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