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  • Amazingly done! Beautiful interaction <3

  • Why do all the Trojans have bull heads?

  • The animation is awesome.

  • ola

  • BRAVO!!!!!!!!! That was awesome! Award Winning fantasticness!

  • BRAVO!!!!! BRAVO!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!

  • all ancient greece heroes/kings/gods are homosexual i as a german cant understand why my fellow europeans praise this Gay culture of greeks...greeks are not even White

  • I'm glad to find a version of this, on youtube, that hasn't been chopped to bits and censored by the poster...

    That being said, would it be so terrible to change the title and summary to something more tasteful? Maybe that this is 'The tale of Achilles and Patroclus' (one interpretation) instead of 'nude men' and 'gay themes'. The sex, I'll be so impertinant to venture, is not the purpose of the film.

  • @dropUrPeaches true, but if homophobes click it unwittingly, a lot more drama seems to be kicked up than if such things were mentioned blatantly. they cant really say they were tricked into watching ZOMG GAY STUFF SO WRONGZ if its right there in the title. unless theyre dumb fucks, but nobody important pays attention to dumb fucks anyway. ;)

  • wow! very erotic! in a nice way!

  • Did you know they've discovered it wasn't Homer who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey after all?

    It was another Greek writer of the same name.

    *ba-dum tish*

    T.

  • @asdfTambourine it would be rough if we went back all those years but i wish i could live in this period. its so beautiful this kind of love. Really fighting for someone and be at all times with him... i agree with u. i think that time sexual orientation didnt exist, just people and bodies and feelings...

  • Wow!

    Just ... wow.

    Beautiful.

    T.

  • amazing!!!

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  • it's funny how when peole find out the hero that was potraid by brad pitt that they've come to love so much was actwaly a lover of another man,they get very defensive.the truth is that homosexwality was a form of militery training in ancient greece.a bot would be put with some one about 5 to 20 year older then him,who would train him and look after him.

  • they would do evrything together such as train,eat,sleap,bath and have sex.this was done because training in such manner meant emotions would go strong for each other amongst the partners.

  • so when time of battle is at hand,the couple would not be afraid to jump in front of swords and spears to protect his partner and would fight twice as furyes because he would not be afraid to die to protect his partner

  • as achilles did for patroclus.

  • Achilles are gay, if you read the novel, he love Patroclus like a girlfriend.

    But then he also fuck with lots of women, so I guess Achilles is bisexual while Patroclus is just gay and playing along lol

  • Brought tears to my eyes twice!!

  • What an incredible piece of work! Truly a visual stunner!

  • I am Stunned by this Piece of art, im starting to do claymation and when i saw this i totattly want to put in this much detail.

  • I knew Barry Purves directed this years ago...but I never seen it before....and only recently had broadband....I just seen it...and was totally impressed with it...the sculptor work is amazing....it's so stylized....brilliant work......

  • This Short-Movie was realised by Barry JC Purves (check Wikipedia for more Infos about him) in 1995.

    It is a very unique and absolutly brillant work of art!

    The homosexuality is not the topic as such, but because in acient Greece it was common and not wrong in any way to be BI or GAY it might be one of the only Movies to make people realise this fact about the ancient Greeks as well as about the fact that the "problem" with homosexuality does not need to be a problem at all... (I am NOT GAY!)

  • I think the one thing about this video that's a little off is that Achilles would not have been the submissive one. I think in ancient Greece the younger one was the submissive one and the older one/head male/male of higher authority was the dominant one.

  • It is actually likely that Patroclus was a little older than Achilles. I don't think it's proven, but a lot of people think so.

  • Really?! Well there's my historical fact of the day. I have never heard that before, but it's an interesting theory. :)

  • I'm pretty sure that Homer says that Patroclus is older at some point, but I can't be sure, haha. Can't exactly trust something that has been passed down over thousands of years though either ;)

  • Homer Bk XI around line 780.. the advice of Menoitios.. "Achilles is superior to you (Patroclus) in birth, but you are the older." The Homeric friendship of Achilles and Patroclus is just recast here in the 5th century Athenian erastes/eronemos relationship. This never happened in Homer.

  • Has this animation ever won any awards? It should have been nominated for an Oscar or show at the Cannes Film Festival! A great movie and a very touching one!!!! Hope to see more of it. how about a Chines version of it.

  • I don't know if I'm turned on or really, really scared.

    But really, this was a beautiful piece of work of art.

  • ok im not gay but this is ...... realistic and hard ....... no really

  • That was amazing, beautiful, magnificent, incredible, the most spectacular stop motion I think I've ever seen! The animation was brilliant, this was amazing! The love scene was beautiful! You are so talented! the video -I thought was going to be very preverse- wasn't! The gay themes, while very present and out there, are beautifuly done. I applaud you for this video. It was amazing!

  • Marlo, gay men can be warriors too. Also, the reason homosexuality is associated with Greeks is because it was accepted as part of human nature in their ancient culture. Contrastingly from today, it hadn't been designated as inappropriate. Our society tends to make a big deal about our cultural differences with the Ancient Greeks as much as we like to celebrate our similarities.

  • I'm quarter Greek Cypriot, and I'm gay.

    A warrior couldn't be gay? Why on earth not?!

    (Actually, if we think of gayness as a cultural concept: the way modern Western men encode their homosexuality, then Achillies wasn't gay, just as modern Indian homosexual men often don't identify as gay. But this is extremely besides the point.)

    T.

  • Absolutely incredible.I wish they had taught it like that when I was in school.

  • this is really interesting

  • This was beautiful. And AMAZING animation.

  • very artistic.....

  • This is so touching... in every way. ^^;

  • bravooooo clap clap clap

  • This is a film by Ray Harryhausen,who did those brilliant skeletons in Jason & the Argonauts.He's a genius.He brought the figures from this animation to Brisbane for a talk.Google him.A true pioneer of stop animation.

  • this is so sad.. 2 have some1 u love taken away from u.

  • Great video,very artistic and historic.

    Loved it.

  • i saw this video years ago in a special presentation by its maker Barry Purves...and iv wanted to see it again since then. All his animations are excellent but this is his best i think. Seeing him and his work inspired me to start a modelmaking/animation career. I hope i come across the rest of his work on here :)

  • After watching thousands of videos, I have to say that this amazing video is in a class of its own! Wow! :)

  • Loved it!

    The man is, was and will be an animal.

    We create words as love to make our animal side more acceptable. When we need we go to the battle to fulfil our desires.

  • I love his. Thank you so much for putting it up

  • Has anyone read the Iliad here, if so was this video acutrate? did it happen this way, because the Brad Pitt film didn't portray this. I wish that they had.

  • Achilles and Patroclus are never shown as lovers in the Iliad, but considering that this is the common hellenic interpretation of their relationship, and that Achilles shows greater love for him than for everyone, I've always considered them as such. There are hints of their relationship, but they probably got added later, when homosexuality was common in Greece as a pedagogic device. Tell me if you want to know more about it ^__^

  • I have ordered a copy of the Iliad from Amazon, and i am looking forward to reading it, if i have any questions i will ask you ;), thankyou.

  • this isn't a joke you morons haha Homosexuality is human nature! And Love is the greatest justification for that! Love exists in many forms and in many ways that most of us do not accept and consider it as taboo. But at the end of the day a man who's sacrficing everything to have another man be beside him is greater than just some guy marrying a woman to fuck her pussy out.

  • Wow. I can't even find words big enough to describe how impressed I am. It's just... so beautiful, so insightful... an ingenious piece of art.

  • So these are gay greeks?

  • What a tragically beautiful illustration of the tale, although in reality Patroclus was older than Achilles

  • good job on the animation in this video, I might not agree with the content, but I do ask one question - is there some historical evidence that greek warriors acted in this manner? As u know, Achilles was a mythical story, maybe based on some fact as all legends might have...my degree was in ancient history and I always like to know more. Thanks.

  • Well, Alexander the Great was certainly gay and looked at Achilles and Patroclus as a model for his relationship with he and Hephastian.

  • Quite right. But that kind of relationship wasn't common until way later than the facts shown in the Iliad. I suppose that, since it's not a story written by a single person, these hints have been added to suit the common interpretation of love between men. Also, homosexuality between men of the same age wasn't common, and often was even frowned upon. It's strange to think of Achilles as the younger one, although he was. Patroclus would've been his "teacher". They're quite interesting, hn?

  • this is beautifull great! this vid is so popular among the guys on ♡_gaysinglehunt.com_♡, some guys add this vid to their favorites.

  • No one will think you have a "PhD on this shit" when you use expressions such as the one I quote

  • unreal animation.

  • haha make more this was well... not funny...but kind of funy

  • Homosexuality/bisexuality were the norn in acient grece. They married women but actually enjoyed men more. They also created democracy and were some of the best fighters the earth has ever seen. Of course all of that has been edited out of history as much as the christian church possibly could. Now you know something. How about you run a long and put a second thought in your head. In other words fuck off.

  • @gray73 yes alot of that is true but your generalizing lol not all men liked other men more. spartans were the most prone to this ofcourse, considering they rarely saw there wives because it was a military state. and before greece existed. was just warring states.

  • @gray73

    They were ephebophiles. It was uncommon find someone attractive, who wasn't a youth anymore, so the the couples usually consisted of either two boys or one teenager and a fully adult men.

  • haha i agree with the comment!

  • It's directed by Barry Purves, whom I highly doubt is the uploader, and it's really disrespectful that he's asking for money to make more videos like this considering it's available for free on Here!TV's website. Ugh.

  • Loved it. Great work.

  • this is so wonderful, thank you very much for making this!

  • very well animated. Must have took lots of storyboarding.

  • they are ancient greeks from greek mythology..

  • What a great production you shared. To bad for those that tie nudity to sex. Hope to see more like this

  • what the HELL?!

  • omfg...

  • Wow... That made me fucking cry, man.

  • Fucked up.

  • this is a good

  • Thats awesome!!!!!

  • Fantastic video- thank you.

  • S T U P E N D O ! ! !

  • How dare you make such a bullshit comparison. You and any other person on this earth that compares life with being should fucking kill themself.

  • I loved the part when that guy got fucked by that tiny cock

  • speechless.....great animation....

  • Brilliant work, well done!!!

    However, nudity was not such a big issue in those days.

    BTW, did you know that he word GYMNASTICS come from the Greek word GYMNOS, which means "Exercising in the Nude".

    Their Olympics must have been interesting!

  • Ancient Greece had an amazing culture ,but unfortunately modern Greece nothing like this

  • Excellent! the time spent to create this animation short movie was I am sure incredible. It gives desire to read this type of literature again

    Thank you!

  • such a wierd gay historical film...

  • even though I'm hetero, I found the love between Achilles and whats his name kinda cute. Same as I would a lesbian couple. Its just interesting that they would prefer they're own sex.

  • Magnificent!

    The work involved in producing such a perfectly executed Stop Motion sequence boggles the mind.

  • superb .... a great interpritation of the classic story

  • Very nice animation.

    I found the role reversal interesting. Achillies is often portrayed as a selfish Glory-seeker, wile Hector usually comes off as one of the few decent people in the whole story; not a villan. Still, a valid interpetation.

  • Absolutely lovely. Thank you.

  • beautiful

  • The narrator is Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi, who voiced Nichodemus in "The Secret of NIMH", and played Archibald Craven in both live-action and animated versions of "The Secret Garden".

  • IMPRESIONAQTE,TENSWO E IMPACTANNTE

  • you know, people in the 1800s said that being black was against god too.

  • i've been gay as long as i can remember, when i was three i noticed that i found men attractive. at what point does a three year old sit and think..hmmm...am i gay?

    also i said 'back then' people were very ignorent, i was just giving an example.

  • award winning! voice over, as well as claymation congratulations

  • PLEASE post the name of the production studio/animation company. Thanks!

  • Very well done!

  • this is beautifull great!

  • Very well crafted claymation. Did u write the script as well? I'm just starting to get into animation myself. Kudos to your skills, though.

  • EXCELLENT WORK< I am very impressed.

  • Viva Troy!!!

  • Great story. Much more accurate than the movie "Troy"

  • give me a break!!!

    piece to you,,dont shame about your self,,,it is not your fault ,,it is nature fault!

  • awesome! check my videos out too!

  • Fantastic animation and soundtrack.

    Pretty true to the text.

  • This is fantastic. A masterpiece. Amazing. I've never seen any kind of claymation with this level of detail, expression, emotion... fantastic!

    And papcyrill, you're talking out your ass.

  • We not hate you[yes I am mocking your awkward English], we hate stupid bigotry and you happen to be a stupid bigot. So strange that you claim not to hate "faggots" although you use a hate term for gays and many exclamation points. Kind of sounds like you do hate gays. Have you read the Iliad or any other history of the Greeks? The fact that you misspelled Iliad makes me question you as an athority on it.

  • It is most often the case that those who speak out against gays are closet cases who are trying to hide their own homosexual desires. You give a strong impression that you are gay and doing all you can to hide the fact. Even though you are a nasty hate filled guy, I wish you well in accepting your true sexual nature.

  • you can ask your mother,,she knows!!

    now i just wrote "achilles" in search,,and never had the idea that this is was a gay theme!! you can saying everthing in inet!! you faggots have nerve only on inet!!! and i dont think that your father proud about you!! the worst thing can happend in this world,,is to have son like you!!faggot!!

  • I see that you did not even deny that you are gay. As a matter of fact both my parents are very proud of me. They are active in PFLAG, an organization to promote justice for Gays and Lesbians. As a family we have always worked for civil rights for all. The whole family is particularly proud of my work for justice in this country.

  • i am not gay,,haha see by your self,,you trying to insult me saying that i am gay!!so you know that when you call somebody gay,,it is a swear!!

    you just prove to your self,,that you are something to shame about it!!!faggot!!

  • As usual, you are so wrong. Being gay is not something to be ashamed of. Being a bigot, a liar, an anit-gay closet case, claiming to have knowledge of history that you are clearly ignorant of: these things are shameful.

    By the way, I put Achilles Patroclus gay in a yahoo search. There were almost 8,000 responses.  Somehow you claim to have had NO responses. Did you lie or do you just not know how to use a computer.

  • hey man, honeslty, how many languages can you speak? i bet this guy beats you there.

  • @papcyrill you are just homophobic - most often the case that those who speak out against gays are closet cases who are trying to hide their own homosexual desires.

  • @blackwingbear another gay attack !!! if you are gay it is your problem not mine ,

    but when you try to do everything gay you just cross the lines !! i am not homophobic neither hidden gay,,but you guys ,just trying to "gaylized" everything !!! even when you wanna insult somebody you are calling him gay!! like you !!!

    relax ,take it easy ,,gay, straight , bi,i don't care anyone can do whatever he wants to in bed ,you always are focusing on sexuality ,you got the complexes not me

  • when is the last time you heard of a hate crime from gays to straight people?

  • i dont hate you :D

  • Great stuff! Kudos to the modelers, lighters, cinematographers, writers, etc. I've never seen such naturalistic claymation, with such emotional expression, and the way light was used really added to it.

    "Although Homer himself does not explicitly describe a sexual relationship between any two men within his work, many ancient Greeks interpreted the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus as being homoerotic[.]"

    'Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece', Wikipedia.

  • bas a ber sumi lla bi tu video hiji de tu pin flois me las bas a pagar ............

  • This has nothing to do with the illiad. They breifly go over the war, and does nothing but exagerate on the "rumered" affair that achilles and Patroclus "might" have shared. This is a very non-educational video. Only pro is the claymation. Just a very bad story line.

  • Thank you for this. Whoever you are.

  • Anybody that may whine at this can bite me. It's awesome and it shouldn't matter if there's nudity.

    Plus Fucking Fav'd.

  • VERY creative and unique! A classy short. I've been a fan of this since I saw this on the VHS compilation "Boys in Love".

    The filmmakers follow-up feature was Kabuki-oriented. An equally amazing film!

  • I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS PIECE! It's soooooo Kewl, Thanks for Posting! I need this in my collection and in my favorites. Thanks again for posting, I can't believe I forgot about this and you posted it! Hooray! ;) (now to calm down and watch it) lol!

  • if they only made the movie with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom like that

  • apsolutly amazing. great piece

  • Absolutely beautiful......I'm floored

  • WOW! Amazing! Fantastic! Well done! Thank you too!

  • Exceptional, extraordinary. Extreme talent in animation and expression of feeling.

  • Wow!! I liked it.

  • GReat claymation! They should get an award!! If anyone knows where I could buy this short please email me!!!

  • This animation has won several awards

  • Can you tell me if I can buy it on VHS or DVD?? Any info would be appreciated!!

  • ok would u like to email me at petros 2001 at yahoo dot com

    thanks

  • it shows the small mindedness of people that they would flag this as inappropriate... might as well have the mpaa censoring this piece...

  • Wow, this must have been a lot of work.

  • greek national history !!!!!! fantastic

  • i see dead people..........i mean penises........the beginning was gay

  • Why label this "gay"? I would label it simply "history"!!! Wonderfuly done though...

  • achilles giving head to alexandar!all cartoon gayreek hereos r gay