#alexander as courtesan to the macedonian army!!
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doodling al'skander when i should be sleeping because i have not recovered from the effects of the persian boy
#completely obsessed with the whole lover (hephaistion/macedon) vs beloved (bagoas/persia) dichotomy#and all the implications of that#alexander as courtesan to the macedonian army!!#anyway. started reading funeral games today so just having lots of thoughts at the moment#the persian boy#mary renault#my art#alexander the great
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Ive been reading the Persian Boy and I'm not suprised by the orientalism but I am disappointed
#Cipher talk#Tbc I don't mean the depiction of slavery#It's very specifically the depiction of Greek culture- I've gotten to the scene where Baogas has spears thrown at him by the 'squires'- as#Subtly 'better' than Persian culture#There's a scrap of deniability bc it's from Baogas's POV so he thinks the Greeks and Macedonians are completely weird and immodest#But what really gets me is how it portrays Alexander as outraged by the treatment of Greeks held in slavery and how it's all 'oh in Greece#They Never cut a boy' and there's no mention that Athenian 'democracy' had a large class of slaves as of yet#But even as we're told by the narrator how improper and immodest the Greeks and Macedonians are I can feel the author winking and nudging#Like 'oh look at how the Persian court is weighed down by ceremony its barely a real army they're decadent (in the way a conservative says#That about a culture) and look at how Baogas holds rivers as sacred and doesn't swim in them (you know the same water he gets sick from)#And the hypocrisy that he was groomed as a 'courtesan' as a literal child but is embarrassed by nudity'#Yeah Mary I can see the feelings of cultural superiority. I still remember that Athens was misogynistic as fuck and had plenty of issues
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