do yall remember when just liking the musical hamilton switxhed from liking the musical to hyperfixating the historical figures themselves or did only I go down that path
So I watched the George Washington mini series from 1984. And I have no clue why, but Laurens and Tilghman just ganging up on Hamilton already is so damn funny to me.
Like- He just arrived and you’re already on his case. And I’m here for it. Break in the new Family member quick. Lol.
Portraits! :D
Concept art of John Laurens and Alexander Hamilton, for my Graphic Novel! No date is set yet and things are a slow progress, but I'll update here when I have more 💜💙
“Washington's circle of young aides were well educated, were versed in the Greek classics, were well aware of the homosexual loves of the ancient Greeks, and compared their loves for each other to the noble love exemplified by such Greek heroes as Damon and Pythias. In camp during the war Hamilton kept a copy of Plutarch's Lives, and particularly admired the “Life of Lycurgus,” the legendary leader of Sparta. Among notes Hamilton kept on the “Life of Lycurgus” is the notation, “Every lad had a lover or friend who take [sic] care of his education and shared in the praise or blame of his virtues or vices.” In a letter to Hamilton, Laurens used the Greek phrase kalos ka agathos, a phrase used in fifth-century Greece and combining the Athenian term for beauty, kalos, which denotes physical or sensual beauty, with the Spartan term agathos, which means beauty in the spiritual sense of honor and valor. In commenting on the letter, the historian Charley Shively writes that kalos ka agathos was used in the 18th-century as a code word for homosexual love, a reference still understood in Greece to this day, Shively says.”
— The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies, by James Neill · 2011