Community Season 2, Episode 24: For a Few Paintballs More
Fun Fact: The term Achillean comes from the Greek hero Achilles.
Though I don’t think the episode is exactly referencing Achilles outside of the term Achilles’ Heels that comes from Greek mythology that when he was an infant he was dipped by his mother on the River Styx to offer powers of invulnerability because he was foretold to perish at young age, but because she held his body by his heel, it was the only part of his body not touched by the water, therefore being his only weakness spot.
But what interests me is the use of the term refering to Jeffrey’s weakness for “wieners” because Achilles is famously know for his relationship with Patroclus, a man, to the point of being used in similar ways to the term “sapphic”, that comes from Sappho, a poetess of the isle of Lesbos.
“Achilles himself is a famous figure in Greek mythology. In relation to sexuality, Achilles had a relationship with another character, Patroclus, that is said to have romantic connotations. In Homer’s Iliad, in which their relationship plays a crucial part in the story, Achilles described Patroclus as being the "man I loved beyond all other comrades, loved as my own life." After Homer's iteration, the relationship between the two men was depicted as a love affair.
Theocritus' Idyll XXIX, a love poem from a man to a boy, includes a phrase addressing their future: "ἀλλάλοισι πελώμεθ' Ἀχιλλέιοι φίλοι" (alláloisi pelómeth' Achilléioi fíloi). It has received loose poetic translations from the Aeolic Greek dialect into English, such as "we'll be Achilles and his friend," "we may be to one another as Achilles and his friend" with the meaning noted as "such friends as were Achilles and Patroclus," and "be friends to each other like Achilles and Patroclus;" however, the literal translation is "be Achillean friends to each other." " Source:
Achillean refers to a man or man-aligned individual who is attracted to other men and man-aligned people. This describes all sexual orientat
