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[marina]

yasaman is having fun in Persian poetry class:

Anyway, we have started reading the Iskandarnameh in Persian classical poetry. Or, well, part of it. It is basically a long ass post-Islamic fanboying of Alexander the Great. Complete with retcons to make his defeating the Persians more palatable, like he was totes Persian omg! or some people say he and Darius were half-brothers omg! and he was so clever and just and great that his empire was a gift to us all! Things I do not approve of though: writing out Olympias and saying Alexander was born to some poor noble woman who died in childbirth, somehow constructing a HS AU where Alexander and Aristotle were totes BFF while they were being taught by Aristotle's dad because WTF Hephaistion was his BFF >:(

context is properly outraged.

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[msilverstar]

That's a really fine one!

You should have heard the fangirls at the NY premiere of Troy snicker every time we heard that Patrocles was Achilles' "cousin".