https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/xz211s/rant_about_achilles_patroclus/

This is, like 100% relevant to the book we are reading now. I didn't want to get involved in this thread. When people THIS MAD about something that wasn't explicitly mentioned in a book (or movie or whatever media they were consuming), I doubt that any logic and sense would help them come down. It's one thing to get mad about things described in a book, but to get mad about things that aren't in it? BTW, OP did not specifically say what they were reading or watching.

For those of us reading the grownup editions, is it correct to say that The Iliad itself does not specifically say that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers? We (here) had discussed that there were multiple sources for the myth of Troy, and we have seen that key parts of the story (the Beauty Contest, the Oath by the other chieftains to support Menelaus, the Trojan Horse, the Fall of Troy) missing from the book.

Is the Achilles Patroclus love story (or lack of it) something to get mad about? Or is it a case of looking for other books/sources that do describe it in detail?