We didn't even know what bi or 'fluid' was until the last century or so I call BS. Sure there were gay relationships but they didn't see such things the way we do now. Masculinity and strength were the code then.
Alexander and his companions were schooled together in Mieza where Aristotle and others were teachers. They were close from early days. That's the way it was back then. Close friendships and growing up together while mastering warfare. That's how they managed to work together perfectly.
He loved Hephaestion beyond friendship and the fact that Alexander fathered a child doesn’t mean anything, he purely needed to secure an heir. He was attracted to both men or women , but Hephaestion was his only love “ there is no other”
i made a follow up video to this one, long form video, and Alexander i think was probably BI if we had to classify him in our day. Apart from the gay scene at the start of the documentary, the show was actually really good, Alexander was a G.
According to historians, Hephaestion was Alexander's true love. So much so that Alexander fell into a pit of immense grief after Hephaestion died and followed him to the afterlife just months later.
@@7mad211 It's difficult to say because the concept of sexuality is different 2,348 years ago, but claiming that he's straight is presumptuous. There's no evidence he was only interested in women.
Well the greeks did have an insult about men who were having sex with other men, so I think that it was considered dishonourable when you overtook it to sex. Even though most of them did😂😂
"most people" 😂 according to whom?.... wishful thinkers. If it wasn't taboo then it wouldn't have been as discreet as it was and scholars today wouldn't have to speculate as much as they do on major figures in ancient history.
@panoskamp4324 It's more complicated than that. The ancient greeks believed that being the 'woman' in homosexual acts was dishonorable not doing the acts themselves. So it wasn't really anti-gay more just sexism
Our speculations cannot harm him, he is dead, if anything, the fact that we want to know about him, is a compliment, actually if Alexander could see us now, he would probably enjoy the attention.
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888prolly just the male attention. which wow, these guys in the comments are providing. being this psychotically obsessed with alexanders sexuality is so gay the wigs are jealous
Yup you got it right. Just imagine your closest friend died, I'm pretty sure straight or gay you will be sad too & mourn their passing just as any person/people should.
He was heterosexual. You cannot claim someone is gay based solely on the fact that he was devastated when his childhood friend, who he fought and killed and bled beside, had died suddenly. Ridiculous.
Everyone thinks ancient westerners were gay or bi cuz of wishful thinking. The west today is more accepting. Back then it was tolerated. Ever heard of ancient gay unions of people and property? Nope.
Is there any "proof" that Alexander was gay?? Anyway, gay, or not, I love Alexander! 🙂 I wish, I was there to comfort him when he was grieving the death of his best friend ❤
There are plenty of Greek historians, archeologists and researchers who are saying clearly that Great Alexander was not only NOT GAY or BI but against it, plus the ancient greek word for a close friend in English is translated like "lover" so no wonder why this is such a false documentary and even from historical events that it mentioned. Not only that but a lot of his enemies changed his history after his death.
@@MariaDemetra369historians have their own bias,I wouldn't trust historians who tried to wipe queer people from history as if no queer person ever existed
That is always an option, as valid as the lover's one. Now, which one makes more sense? Both had Aristotle as a teacher and one of the things that the philosopher defended was that purely carnal love was vulgar and ordinary. Maybe that influenced their relationship, or not, who knows. Hefaction was a person very present in his life, it is very likely that he knew him since he was a child. Alexander valued him so much that to share blood ties, he married Hefastion to his second wife's sister. Just so they would share blood. When he died he asked that Hefastion be worshiped as a God, but was rejected. Several historians associate the health decline of Alexander the Great with the death of Hefastion, since he died 8 months after him. A man who was close to death so many times did not die in battle but died 8 months after his "special friend". If that's not love, I don't know what is.
erastis is the teacher and eromenos is the student desire for knowledge, the modern greek translation has a different meaning after 2k years which translates simply in english to ''lover'' but why describe smth with 2 words that has the so called same meaning today when they were 2 separate words? if you do the correct translations these words just make sence in every altered historical figures like band of thebes, achiles patroclus, spartans warriors. It is not a misunderstanding like some claim it is simply bad translation and interpratation of ancient greek language that is lost and still examined to these day with all its meanings. Smth last in ancient greece existed 20 descriptions (words) to desribe homo/gay actions or epithets. Not once was used in the instances i said.
Important to recognise that sexual delineations weren't so insanely obsessed over back then as they are today. Did Alexander and his mate bum each other? Who knows, and who really cares?! What an incredibly pointless discussion to have.
I m not greek. I am Indian. But as far I know ancient greece didn't even know the word gay. They were only aware of Sexuality. Alexander or Sikender was emperor, so it was obvious that he would have a legal heir for his family line, but it was too true that he had always been to his Hephaistion.
Historical records don't mention that Alexander the Great had done any sexual acts with any males. In Greece, there was nothing wrong with homosexuality especially when it's between young men or a young man and an older man. It's ridiculous to assume Alexander the Great was gay just because he had ONE male friend he loved dearly. Take into consideration that Alexander was an only child, with little love among family members. Egyptian records (that are almost never spoken of as if he was never in Egypt) mention Alexander as a pious and chaste man with great virtue and justice. So much that the Ammon oracle in Siwa (hundreds of miles away from the capital) ordered the priests to melt their gold amulets and create a special crown for the new Pharaoh... an unprecedented event in all Egyptian history. The crown was known as the Horns of Ammon. Homodexuality wasn't considered a virtuous act in Egypt.
I don't know what books you may have read to say that, and with such confidence, given that experts are still debating the topic... Have you heard the term forced exclusion? It's literally what people is trying to do now. They are denying history because they don't like it.
Back in the day, in ancient Greece sexuality preference wasn't a thing. gay or straight wasn't a thing. Alex`s father to had sexual and love interest for some guy. The greeks knew how man should live all along. Why don't we follow too.
My birth name is Alexander John Lavorico IV (Alessandro Giovanni Lavorico IV) and go by my name Alexander the IV for my music, i found this info of Alexander the Greats son when i was around 8 years old and he was a pope, but always was very passionate of my name because i felt like a descendent of Alexander the Great, as my father is obviously my father haha but its like the whole gods birthing, they said zeus was his father in the gods and athena was his mother, but just felt it was cool af to be the fourth of my full name passed down, my son will be the fifth when that day comes, super cool part of history though i was always attached to haha
there was no such thing as “gay” in ancient greece, things were definitely more fluid back then. He very well might have been in love romantically with hephastion, but it could also likely be platonic, there are many different ways to love, and male relationships were very sacred back then. (also you shld make a vid about alexander and bagoas)
Alexander had 2 primary male lovers not 1, your forgetting Bagoas, a persian enuch who is well docunented to have been a rival for hepheastian. Alexander was not gay, as homosexuality was frowned upon, however bisexuality was perfectly fine. The idea was that you could gave sex with anyone as long as you understood naturea role, and that you need women for breeding. Loving only men would be seen as pointless and degenerate, but having both male and female lovera would be perfectly fine.
Alexander was not gay. In his campaign Alexander had with him her Athenians mistresses Thais. After his death Thais maried his General Ptolemy who was the ancestor of Cleopatra.
@@nic8277 there is no source to that. Modern historians made this misconception because the Spartans use to be all day together training. also some cases of homosexuality has been written because greeks had history writing so that's why you see that and don't see Mongols or barbarian gays
Reading history of Alexander we can come to a point where we can guess that maybe he was kind of a bi and that was a well-known view of sexuality among ancient Greeks, but Netflix said screw that lets make another political correct series.
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 back then all these LGBTQIA+ definitions had no sense because sex was lived and perceived differently. In many ancient civilizations gender roles were more important than sexual orientation and until a man did all the male things, had wives and children, showed bravery in wars and other similar stuffs, and took always the dominant position both in society and inside the couples (sex was also a matter of roles and power and males had to dominate while female to be dominated, so until you are in the male position it's ok), people did not care too much weather men preferred to have sex with female or male partners, unless the male partners were of the same age or of the same social position. This was considered problematic. Homosexuality was condamned only when adult men were perceived taking the passive role in the couple. So a warrior king who fought in front of his army, a conqueror as Alexander, was perceived as the quintessential alpha male for himself, because he was the greatest leader of his times, the one who submitted everyone and no one cared if he loved women or he preferred males until he provided legitimate heirs for the throne. Even though ancient sources described him as too pruod to be too keen to lower instincts or to act in a bad way against women, he had a lot of relationships, both for political and personal reason. Ancient sources tell he had 3 legitimate wives, a beautiful mistress, older than him, an harem of 365 concubines and some others love affairs with female lovers. But he also had sex with the beautiful eunuch Bagoa and maybe with other boys. Many think also that he and his closest friends, alter ego, second in chief and bodyguard Hephaestion were not only friends, they were also lovers. So, using today's definitions, he was pansexual because he had sex with men, women and also with the eunuch that was born male but lived as a woman
There are plenty of Greek historians, archeologists and researchers who are saying clearly that Great Alexander was not only NOT GAY or BI but against it, plus the ancient greek word for a close friend in English is translated like "lover" so no wonder why this is such a false documentary and even from historical events that it mentioned. Not only that but a lot of his enemies changed his history after his death.
@@MariaDemetra369 some ancient sources are very explicit about his relationship with the eunuch Bagoas, other late texts say he loved boys and some others describe Hephaestion as his eromenos though the most famous ancient authors (Plutarch, Arrianus, Curtius Rufus, Diodorus) describe them as "philoi", "hetairoi", that means "friends", "companions" but the therm "philia", that we translate with "friendship", for ancient Greeks wasn't meant only for what we nowadays define friendship. Philia is the description of a particular deep form of love that put the accent upon the strength of the feelings and the connection between two persons without specifying the nature of the relationship. So philia could connect two friends, two lovers, a married couple, a father and a son, a mother and her children, a teacher and his pupil. Alexander and Hephaestion were described as Achilles and Patroclus, they were for each other "hetairoi philtatoi", the most trusted and beloved companions. So we can't really know if they also were lovers, if they also had sex or not. In the Iliad of Homer Achilles and Patroclus loved each other so much that they are ready to die for each other, they valued their friendship more than their own lives and they love each other more than any woman in the world. Does or doesn't this mean that they were also lovers?! Who knows. In Homeric poem they shared the same tent but not the same bed and they are described having female concubines. But in the later tradition since V century BC they are described also as a pederastic couple, with authors questioning whether Achilles, being the stronger and the leader but also the younger and Patroclus being his therapon (personal attendant), was the erastes or the eromenos. Aeschilus, quoted by Plutarch (Erotikon) and Plato (Symposium), not to mention Diogenes Laertius, are quite explicit about this point. Late antique sources defined Alexander and Hephaestion as lovers. But who really knows if these sources tell the truth? No one. Still we can't ignore that there are actually sources describing Alexander having sex at least with Bagoas (Plutarch and Curtius Rufus). So he wasn't gay for sure, because he had too many women (wives, concubines, lovers, mistresses) in his life and he had children, that means he had sex with many women, but he can't even be defined completely as straight because not all his sexual relationships were with female partners. His father was said to have seven wives, many female lovers and many illegitimate children, but sources say that he also had sex with young males, and one of his former lovers was also the killer who stabbed him to death. Maybe the fruit never falls too far from the tree
Did I get this one wrong?
You got it 💯% right.
Wrong!!
You are correct. There is no proof Alex was gay. Thouse are just wishfull thinkings of LTBTQRUSHSGSKS...comunity.
Yes😂😂😂
He is not gay like you 😂
He wasn’t gay. He was fluid. The ancient Greeks understood sexuality even more than todays society does it seems.
He was bi
We didn't even know what bi or 'fluid' was until the last century or so I call BS. Sure there were gay relationships but they didn't see such things the way we do now. Masculinity and strength were the code then.
Most Greek and Roman history is fabricated
@@jeffersonhassan4558🤦♂️
Lmao.
Alexander and his companions were schooled together in Mieza where Aristotle and others were teachers. They were close from early days. That's the way it was back then. Close friendships and growing up together while mastering warfare. That's how they managed to work together perfectly.
He loved Hephaestion beyond friendship and the fact that Alexander fathered a child doesn’t mean anything, he purely needed to secure an heir. He was attracted to both men or women , but Hephaestion was his only love “ there is no other”
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Well said.. Nothing wrong with being bi. Iam and proud
People can be soul mates with out being romantic
No they can't. Gods plan and will for you will always shine through everything else that you want
@@thedawg2023 ... Bro are you d. .mb??
@@thedawg2023I don’t get how that supports your claim on how people Can not be soul mates without being romantic
Yeah plus Ancient Greece was more pedophilic than homosexual. Boys were forced to be companions of older men
Alexander loved Hephaestion he married Roxanna cause he needed a heir
Thats called brotherhood... very rare these days
Ya true that.. but then again Dan Pena says, "Eagles fly alone" 😎
I think its called Buggerhood bro.
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888
oh is that what we're calling it now😂😂😂🎉
Like the theban brotherhood of gay elite soldiers
Everyone: Alexander was not gay.
Netflix: excuse me?
I knew it the moment I saw who the women were that were doing the “research”. I’m so sick of this garbage.
@@deadtotheworld me2 but if you stop for a moment and realise who are netflix's target group you ll understand
i made a follow up video to this one, long form video, and Alexander i think was probably BI if we had to classify him in our day. Apart from the gay scene at the start of the documentary, the show was actually really good, Alexander was a G.
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 sorry but you are wrong
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 historical facts dont really care about your opinion and thoughts
Historians when someone has a Best friend 🏳️🌈
Wrong, historians be like "they were just best friends" lmao
Yeah when one greek states calls others gay it really means they are gay and they are not totally making this up for their hatered against them.
Hahaha facts 😂
Only gay historians.
Alexander looks like Brad Pitt and friend Johnny Depp
According to historians, Hephaestion was Alexander's true love. So much so that Alexander fell into a pit of immense grief after Hephaestion died and followed him to the afterlife just months later.
"historians"
He was bi then
@@7mad211 no
@@7mad211 It's difficult to say because the concept of sexuality is different 2,348 years ago, but claiming that he's straight is presumptuous. There's no evidence he was only interested in women.
well these ''historians'' you refer to forgot to mention add the word ''platonic'' before the word ''love''
Like most people back then, he was bi. There were few tabboos back then before Christianity on such things
That's not true, the ancient romans didn't like homossexuals especially the passive ones or those who were adults(it was more okay with kids)
Well the greeks did have an insult about men who were having sex with other men, so I think that it was considered dishonourable when you overtook it to sex. Even though most of them did😂😂
"most people" 😂 according to whom?.... wishful thinkers. If it wasn't taboo then it wouldn't have been as discreet as it was and scholars today wouldn't have to speculate as much as they do on major figures in ancient history.
@panoskamp4324 It's more complicated than that. The ancient greeks believed that being the 'woman' in homosexual acts was dishonorable not doing the acts themselves. So it wasn't really anti-gay more just sexism
@@randomspid3r142 like the world we live now. What's your point? The Greeks are what you call now sexist, so you are still wrong
Why would it be of importance that he was or wasn’t.
A friend died, and he grieved. Enough.
He died over 2500 years ago. Let the dead be.
Our speculations cannot harm him, he is dead, if anything, the fact that we want to know about him, is a compliment, actually if Alexander could see us now, he would probably enjoy the attention.
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888prolly just the male attention. which wow, these guys in the comments are providing. being this psychotically obsessed with alexanders sexuality is so gay the wigs are jealous
Yup you got it right. Just imagine your closest friend died, I'm pretty sure straight or gay you will be sad too & mourn their passing just as any person/people should.
He was heterosexual. You cannot claim someone is gay based solely on the fact that he was devastated when his childhood friend, who he fought and killed and bled beside, had died suddenly. Ridiculous.
😂😂😂these guys in the comments trying to cope with alexander being gay while also being sooo gay for alexander
😂😂 Never saw it that why, but there is some truth to that
He had 365 wives. Pretty not-gay, he was bi
The mourning of a friend is now homosexual? That seems very stupid. Especially considering Alexander had a harem of more then 300 women
Learn history and then comment..
No, i don't think he had a harem of 300 women.
Actually he was bi
Well he was bi and that was not his friend… Sorry history triggers u.
Everyone thinks ancient westerners were gay or bi cuz of wishful thinking. The west today is more accepting. Back then it was tolerated. Ever heard of ancient gay unions of people and property? Nope.
Is there any "proof" that Alexander was gay??
Anyway, gay, or not, I love Alexander! 🙂
I wish, I was there to comfort him when he was grieving the death of his best friend ❤
Maybe BI, how sweet of u.
absolutely no proof to suggest homo or gay if you ve seen the film its a crap representation with no historical accuracy
There are plenty of Greek historians, archeologists and researchers who are saying clearly that Great Alexander was not only NOT GAY or BI but against it, plus the ancient greek word for a close friend in English is translated like "lover" so no wonder why this is such a false documentary and even from historical events that it mentioned. Not only that but a lot of his enemies changed his history after his death.
@@MariaDemetra369historians have their own bias,I wouldn't trust historians who tried to wipe queer people from history as if no queer person ever existed
What about greek mythology, are those all got corrupted time to time?@@MariaDemetra369
He kissed Bagoas in public according to Plutarch. Pretty gay.
😳
He had 365 wives. Pretty not-gay, he was bi
Plutarch a know hater 😂 plus Alexander had 3 wives
Hephaistion was just Alexander's childhood friend, who was like a brother for him.
That is always an option, as valid as the lover's one. Now, which one makes more sense? Both had Aristotle as a teacher and one of the things that the philosopher defended was that purely carnal love was vulgar and ordinary. Maybe that influenced their relationship, or not, who knows. Hefaction was a person very present in his life, it is very likely that he knew him since he was a child. Alexander valued him so much that to share blood ties, he married Hefastion to his second wife's sister. Just so they would share blood. When he died he asked that Hefastion be worshiped as a God, but was rejected. Several historians associate the health decline of Alexander the Great with the death of Hefastion, since he died 8 months after him. A man who was close to death so many times did not die in battle but died 8 months after his "special friend". If that's not love, I don't know what is.
@@danielaorellana8216 It's brotherhood, that's what it is.
He was bi wasn't he.
No
Pretty much
erastis is the teacher and eromenos is the student desire for knowledge, the modern greek translation has a different meaning after 2k years which translates simply in english to ''lover'' but why describe smth with 2 words that has the so called same meaning today when they were 2 separate words? if you do the correct translations these words just make sence in every altered historical figures like band of thebes, achiles patroclus, spartans warriors. It is not a misunderstanding like some claim it is simply bad translation and interpratation of ancient greek language that is lost and still examined to these day with all its meanings. Smth last in ancient greece existed 20 descriptions (words) to desribe homo/gay actions or epithets. Not once was used in the instances i said.
“Stop scrolling and learn something”, hit deep. I hope to make this my new motto.🤣🤣
He was gayer than Gay McGay queen of Gaytown cityin the province of Full Gqy province.Heavily gay.Ask his boyfriend.
Lol
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 Dude nobody that is a content creator has ever replied to me
Hehehe😂
Agreed😐
He wasn't an alphabet person... he was Greek.
Ancient man: Is friends and basically brothers to each other
Some random person: OMG They were gay
Important to recognise that sexual delineations weren't so insanely obsessed over back then as they are today. Did Alexander and his mate bum each other? Who knows, and who really cares?! What an incredibly pointless discussion to have.
I m not greek. I am Indian. But as far I know ancient greece didn't even know the word gay. They were only aware of Sexuality. Alexander or Sikender was emperor, so it was obvious that he would have a legal heir for his family line, but it was too true that he had always been to his Hephaistion.
Historical records don't mention that Alexander the Great had done any sexual acts with any males. In Greece, there was nothing wrong with homosexuality especially when it's between young men or a young man and an older man. It's ridiculous to assume Alexander the Great was gay just because he had ONE male friend he loved dearly. Take into consideration that Alexander was an only child, with little love among family members. Egyptian records (that are almost never spoken of as if he was never in Egypt) mention Alexander as a pious and chaste man with great virtue and justice. So much that the Ammon oracle in Siwa (hundreds of miles away from the capital) ordered the priests to melt their gold amulets and create a special crown for the new Pharaoh... an unprecedented event in all Egyptian history. The crown was known as the Horns of Ammon. Homodexuality wasn't considered a virtuous act in Egypt.
If he was Gay, he wouldn’t destroyed Thebes.
Napoleon bona parte:❓
Genghis Khan:❓
Charle magne:❓
Adolf Hitler:❓
What's going on their🤔🤔
Alexander was bisexual like most of men at the time.
Evidence? Source? Quite the claim to say most men at the time were bisexual
absolutely garbage claim but typical for a RUclips commentary
@@CharalamposAftsoglouyea, let's make queer people invisible all through history lol
@@CharalamposAftsoglou Weakling, real men dominate all holes regardless of gender, Alexander was a conqueror of women and men
Netflix, always pushing the the nutball agenda.
Alexander was bi,even the creator of this video will later go on to change his words
pushing the nutball agenda was alexander the greats favorite activity!😂
I don't know what books you may have read to say that, and with such confidence, given that experts are still debating the topic... Have you heard the term forced exclusion? It's literally what people is trying to do now. They are denying history because they don't like it.
for the little i know i'm quite sure he was like most people of the time: "if there is a hole, there is a goal"
Lol well thankfully they used the holes that procreate 🤓
Back in the day, in ancient Greece sexuality preference wasn't a thing. gay or straight wasn't a thing. Alex`s father to had sexual and love interest for some guy. The greeks knew how man should live all along. Why don't we follow too.
Bro made him Brad Pitt
No I didn't 😏
@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 You made the other Johnny Depp though right?
My birth name is Alexander John Lavorico IV (Alessandro Giovanni Lavorico IV) and go by my name Alexander the IV for my music, i found this info of Alexander the Greats son when i was around 8 years old and he was a pope, but always was very passionate of my name because i felt like a descendent of Alexander the Great, as my father is obviously my father haha but its like the whole gods birthing, they said zeus was his father in the gods and athena was his mother, but just felt it was cool af to be the fourth of my full name passed down, my son will be the fifth when that day comes, super cool part of history though i was always attached to haha
Today: alexder was gay
Tomorrow : a gay men can become great like Alexander 🤣
there was no such thing as “gay” in ancient greece, things were definitely more fluid back then. He very well might have been in love romantically with hephastion, but it could also likely be platonic, there are many different ways to love, and male relationships were very sacred back then. (also you shld make a vid about alexander and bagoas)
Yeah, he wasn't gay, he was bisexual.
😂😂😂 pathetic
@@NIGHTGUYRYAN there is nothing pathetic about someone's sexual orientation. It's totally normal. You should grow up.
Why it should be declared ? 🤦🏻♀️
he was gay , as per ancient greek historian justin
Lmao 😂 brad pitt
Alexander had 2 primary male lovers not 1, your forgetting Bagoas, a persian enuch who is well docunented to have been a rival for hepheastian.
Alexander was not gay, as homosexuality was frowned upon, however bisexuality was perfectly fine.
The idea was that you could gave sex with anyone as long as you understood naturea role, and that you need women for breeding.
Loving only men would be seen as pointless and degenerate, but having both male and female lovera would be perfectly fine.
They did Alexander dirty
Platonically gay is a thing
Maybe they were like Frodo and Sam or Merry and Pippin.
Alexander was bisexual.
No, he was not gay! He had deep respect to his close friends
Hell yeah he's gay
The movie with Colin Farrell made him look gay for sure, well BI.
Gay that he had a good friend?
@@heistbros8575yes a friend ..
Given that, since you have male friends as a male it makes you gay?
@@Rocky342 Is not only for that, read all the details.
"Alessandro was ruled by Efestione thighs" and a lot more evidences.
Everyone back then was "gay".
Happy😊
Why is roxana shown to be brown here? She was an sintashta aryan
Why does he look like Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt is his descendant
If Alexandre is gay then how stateira and roxanne became mother
Alexander the Great was not gay he just have a close friend who he cared about deeply he’s not jack twist
why is brad pitt ai alexander though 😂😂😂
Lol I had to pick someone, and Alexander was a fan of Achilles and Brad played Achilles in the movie Troy🤣
Greeks were famous for the male gays!
Bisexual maybe?
Fake video they are young brother ... Not from king but your mother boy...they are brothers.... Your fake ilusions of legion of LGBT's
My only question is that Brad Pitt ?
Yes I paid him 5 million dollars to act for that photoshoot....the least you could do is like subscribe and check out my other videos 😉
Brad Pitt
I thought all ancient Greeks are gay😮
Was not gay. But good bait mate.
He was gay. It’s set in stone
Alexander was not gay. In his campaign Alexander had with him her Athenians mistresses Thais. After his death Thais maried his General Ptolemy who was the ancestor of Cleopatra.
Oh dammm didn't know that one.. Thanks
Simple answer no because he had 2 legal wives and countless slaves
They werre just friends
May be he is Bi 😂😂
Probably most likely if he wasn't straight.
"Alexander the Gay" 😂
Is bisexual lost to people? Or Pan if we count Boagas.
Alexander the Gay
🤣🤣
I guess we are playing a game of "bisexuality is a myth" again. ffsake
Check out my latest video on this. I actually say he was BI
Lustig, wie der Alexander in diesem Video aussieht wie Brad Pitt😅
Haha, Brad Pitt would have played a good Alexander.
HE WAS NOT GAY!!NOR THE SPARTANS
Yes they all were
Yea no one was
@@nic8277 there is no source to that. Modern historians made this misconception because the Spartans use to be all day together training. also some cases of homosexuality has been written because greeks had history writing so that's why you see that and don't see Mongols or barbarian gays
No. He wasn't
Reading history of Alexander we can come to a point where we can guess that maybe he was kind of a bi and that was a well-known view of sexuality among ancient Greeks, but Netflix said screw that lets make another political correct series.
Ya check my latest video on this topic, they didn't wait 5min to do it. But the rest of the show was great.
Bactria? Dang.
Middle eastern women dude, gorgeous.
But Great to who. He ran terribles wars.
i was trying to remmember who and whta alexander did and was
Lol no way
India ❤
How bout bagoas??
He was bye
HairDesign for woman
What...
No
Question et réponse toutes aussi stupides pour la période, au cours de laquelle les termes "homosexuel" et "gay" n'existent pas; et pour cause.
Bro
Yes he was gay I got the movie
In the movie it looked like he was BI
wow the movie are u for real?? who should we trust ancient texts or Hollywood?
no fucking clue or 1 mention of Alexander being anything close to gay
Alexander was pansexual
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@@LegendaryStoryTeller888 back then all these LGBTQIA+ definitions had no sense because sex was lived and perceived differently. In many ancient civilizations gender roles were more important than sexual orientation and until a man did all the male things, had wives and children, showed bravery in wars and other similar stuffs, and took always the dominant position both in society and inside the couples (sex was also a matter of roles and power and males had to dominate while female to be dominated, so until you are in the male position it's ok), people did not care too much weather men preferred to have sex with female or male partners, unless the male partners were of the same age or of the same social position. This was considered problematic. Homosexuality was condamned only when adult men were perceived taking the passive role in the couple. So a warrior king who fought in front of his army, a conqueror as Alexander, was perceived as the quintessential alpha male for himself, because he was the greatest leader of his times, the one who submitted everyone and no one cared if he loved women or he preferred males until he provided legitimate heirs for the throne. Even though ancient sources described him as too pruod to be too keen to lower instincts or to act in a bad way against women, he had a lot of relationships, both for political and personal reason. Ancient sources tell he had 3 legitimate wives, a beautiful mistress, older than him, an harem of 365 concubines and some others love affairs with female lovers. But he also had sex with the beautiful eunuch Bagoa and maybe with other boys. Many think also that he and his closest friends, alter ego, second in chief and bodyguard Hephaestion were not only friends, they were also lovers. So, using today's definitions, he was pansexual because he had sex with men, women and also with the eunuch that was born male but lived as a woman
There are plenty of Greek historians, archeologists and researchers who are saying clearly that Great Alexander was not only NOT GAY or BI but against it, plus the ancient greek word for a close friend in English is translated like "lover" so no wonder why this is such a false documentary and even from historical events that it mentioned. Not only that but a lot of his enemies changed his history after his death.
@@MariaDemetra369 some ancient sources are very explicit about his relationship with the eunuch Bagoas, other late texts say he loved boys and some others describe Hephaestion as his eromenos though the most famous ancient authors (Plutarch, Arrianus, Curtius Rufus, Diodorus) describe them as "philoi", "hetairoi", that means "friends", "companions" but the therm "philia", that we translate with "friendship", for ancient Greeks wasn't meant only for what we nowadays define friendship. Philia is the description of a particular deep form of love that put the accent upon the strength of the feelings and the connection between two persons without specifying the nature of the relationship. So philia could connect two friends, two lovers, a married couple, a father and a son, a mother and her children, a teacher and his pupil. Alexander and Hephaestion were described as Achilles and Patroclus, they were for each other "hetairoi philtatoi", the most trusted and beloved companions. So we can't really know if they also were lovers, if they also had sex or not. In the Iliad of Homer Achilles and Patroclus loved each other so much that they are ready to die for each other, they valued their friendship more than their own lives and they love each other more than any woman in the world. Does or doesn't this mean that they were also lovers?! Who knows. In Homeric poem they shared the same tent but not the same bed and they are described having female concubines. But in the later tradition since V century BC they are described also as a pederastic couple, with authors questioning whether Achilles, being the stronger and the leader but also the younger and Patroclus being his therapon (personal attendant), was the erastes or the eromenos. Aeschilus, quoted by Plutarch (Erotikon) and Plato (Symposium), not to mention Diogenes Laertius, are quite explicit about this point. Late antique sources defined Alexander and Hephaestion as lovers. But who really knows if these sources tell the truth? No one. Still we can't ignore that there are actually sources describing Alexander having sex at least with Bagoas (Plutarch and Curtius Rufus). So he wasn't gay for sure, because he had too many women (wives, concubines, lovers, mistresses) in his life and he had children, that means he had sex with many women, but he can't even be defined completely as straight because not all his sexual relationships were with female partners. His father was said to have seven wives, many female lovers and many illegitimate children, but sources say that he also had sex with young males, and one of his former lovers was also the killer who stabbed him to death. Maybe the fruit never falls too far from the tree
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