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
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 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
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
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