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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Byzantine novels

Hysminias loving Hysmine spurred her mother to violence

Interrupting Hysminias’s dream of loving Hysmine, her mother violently dragged her away and summoned an army of women to stone him. … Read the post Hysminias loving Hysmine spurred her mother to violence

Byzantine literature can help men overcome romantic simplicity

The Byzantine novel Hysmine and Hysminias offers a superb literary tool for helping men in love to overcome their romantic innocence and simplicity. … Read the post Byzantine literature can help men overcome romantic simplicity

Andronikos defied Spartan mothers, rejected soldier’s role

Andronikos I, a Byzantine nobleman, defied the Spartan mothers’ teaching on violence against men. He focused on manly passion in bed. … Read the post Andronikos defied Spartan mothers, rejected soldier’s role

castration culture promotes vicious, jealous eunuchs as officials

Gynocentric society supports castration culture and cadres of vicious, jealous eunuch officials like Eutropius in Constantinople in 399. … Read the post castration culture promotes vicious, jealous eunuchs as officials

how Hysmine enthralled Hysminias: hazards of herald service

Hysmine’s treatment of Hysminias while he was serving as herald offers a case study of sexual harassment of men in 12th-century Byzantium. … Read the post how Hysmine enthralled Hysminias: hazards of herald service

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