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Hahaha!! I love turning tables, putting straight characters into typical gay “coming out” situations, which are nearly always awkward and uncomfortable, if not outright dangerous….
Slaves were not allowed to marry in Ancient Greece until they had both been granted their freedom or gotten permission from VERY benevolent masters. Quite simply, getting married and having children interfered with one’s job, unless one was specifically employed as a nursemaid. In this context, if Niobe were granted her freedom, as a woman her relationship with her man would be over. Sure, many a freeman dallied with a slavegirl, but the opposite–a freewoman involved with a male slave–would be scandalous.
The last time I pulled this was in House of the Muses #5, with Doricha telling Sappho:
“I know that I am not whom you might have envisioned your brother would wed, but…he LOVES me. Knowing all this, why can YOU not love and accept me for WHO I AM??”
Now this. Poor Niobe.
