{"id":1458760,"date":"2024-02-22T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1458760"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:35:00","slug":"greece-protests-netflixs-portrayal-of-alexander-the-great-as-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/greece-protests-netflixs-portrayal-of-alexander-the-great-as-gay\/1458760\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Protests Netflix&#8217;s Portrayal Of Alexander The Great As Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Greece Protests Netflix&#8217;s Portrayal Of Alexander The Great As Gay<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/greece\/greece-protests-netflixs-portrayal-of-alexander-the-great-as-gay\/\">RemixNews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greek Cultural Minister Lina Mendoni is outraged by U.S. streaming service Netflix\u2019s take on Alexander the Great with its new show \u201cThe Making of a God.\u201d <strong>The Greek minister of culture is upset that Alexander the Great \u2014 one of the most prominent figures in ancient history \u2014 is <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/index.hu\/kultur\/2024\/02\/20\/gorogorszag-nagy-sandor-sorozat-netflix-homoszexualitas-lina-mendoni\/\">portrayed as homosexual<\/a>, <\/strong>along with his main friend in the show.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Alexander-the-Great.jpg?itok=WNB1i40X\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An opinion piece in the Greek daily Eleftheros Typos had already been published earlier, saying that this was a \u201cdistortion of the truth.\u201d In the article, Oliver Stone\u2019s 2004 film Alexander was blamed for \u201claunching a propaganda campaign about Alexander the Great\u2019s homosexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dimitris Natsios, the president of the right-wing Niki party, <strong>called the series \u201cdeplorable, unacceptable and unhistorical\u201d and said the film aims to subliminally convey the idea \u2014 without any basis \u2014 that homosexuality was acceptable in ancient times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natsis also asked Mendoni what he thought about all this. The culture minister said the series is full of historical inaccuracies, which \u201cshows the negligence of the director and the lack of quality of the script.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThere is no mention in the sources that this friendship goes beyond the boundaries of friendship as defined by Aristotle,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>said Mendoni.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Nathosios whether the Greek government would take action against Netflix over this, Mendoni said that \u201csuch a move would be unconstitutional. Greece\u2019s constitution has protected artistic freedom since the early 19th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/greece\/greece-protests-netflixs-portrayal-of-alexander-the-great-as-gay\/\">ReMix site after the jump<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 02\/22\/2024 &#8211; 10:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/greece-protests-netflixs-portrayal-alexander-great-gay\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece Protests Netflix&#8217;s Portrayal Of Alexander The Great As Gay By RemixNews Greek Cultural Minister Lina Mendoni is outraged by U.S. streaming service Netflix\u2019s take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-67uo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}