Frederick the great gay

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The Making of Today Special: The Queerness of Frederick the Great

Frederick concentrated on becoming the best monarch possible. He soon managed to transform Prussia from a European backwater to an economically strong and politically reformed state. He abolished torture and corporal punishment. The icing on the cake was his long-held policy of religious tolerance of both Catholics and Protestants, thus becoming one of the great reformers of Europe.

Was Frederick The Great Gay? – Mythbusting Berlin

Driven to despair, in , the year-old Frederick made a fateful decision: he would flee Prussia. His intended destination was England, ruled by his maternal uncle George II. Accompanying him in this desperate venture was his intimate friend, Hans Hermann von Katte.

For those who do not know Greek mythology Ganymede was a young man who caught the eye of Zeus who brought him to Olympus as his lover and wine bearer. Knowing that Frederick liked older men we can perhaps see why he wanted this fresco. Famously, when his beloved sister Wilhelmina died he had memorial built to her called the Temple of Friendship in Directly inspired by Greek architecture and myth on the pillars that hold up the domed roof male heroes of Greek mythology decorate it.