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The talk is not even concerned with ideologies surrounding ancient expressions of sexual identity either, but it does look at contemporary expressions of the sexual and gendered self because our focus is exploring modern concepts of homosexual identities which have attached themselves to the figure of Alexander the Great. The lecture I will be delivering on 21 February, during LGBT History Month, is not about the real Alexander, of course how could it be? Nor is it about the historicity or even the historiography of his sexuality, although these thorny subjects continue to perplex and divide both Alexander-scholars and Alexander-devotees alike. Poster for Oliver Stone's 2004 film, 'Alexander' Alexander’s sexuality and popular culture In recent decades enthusiastic (if flawed) gay-interest websites have been busily appropriating Alexander as a role model for the modern gay man so much so, indeed, that the Cassell’s Queer Companion entry dedicated to the Macedonian conqueror notes that Alexander is a staple in the long list of historical gays that have been ‘claimed ‘from history. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s stimulated even Classicists to think in new and exciting ways, and Alexander’s sexuality was thrown wide open for debate – in classrooms, on gay political marches, in popular literature, in magazines, in pornography – and the strengthening gay communities of the liberal west happily embraced the ancient ruler not only as a gay prototype, but as a gay hero. The question of Alexander’s homosexuality, once the preserve of scholars such as Tarn whose determined attempt in 1948, ‘to straighten the matter out’ (no pun intended, surely) and close future discussion down, met only with Badian’s hatchet-job of a dissection of Tarn’s own pedantic conservatism a decade later. In his 2006 book Alexander’s Lovers, for instance, Andrew Chugg notes that, ‘to understand Alexander well, it is necessary to follow his heart more than his policies’. Benson put it) and began to consider sexual preferences as an integral part of sexual identity, Alexander the Great has been scrutinized and analysed for what his love life said (or says) about the man himself. "Ever since the Twentieth Century discovered ‘that horrid thing Freud called sex’ (as E. It was supposed to say ‘Alexander the Gay’, but someone translated it wrong to ‘Alexander the Great.’ () Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University)įor LGBT history month, guest blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University) asks: 'Alexander the Great or Alexander the Gay?' before his talk this week, exploring Alexander's sexuality and popular culture.
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Alexander the Great or Alexander the Gay?