Unlike the Byzantine epic hero Digenis Akritis, Kallimachos needed instruction from Chrysorroi in slaying a dragon in a Byzantine romance parody. … Read the post damsel instructed hero on how to slay dragon
The medieval Byzantine romance Livistros and Rhodamne subtly critiques social devaluation of men’s lives through the tyranny of omnipotent Eros. … Read the post Livistros and Rhodamne shows men under despotic Eros in Byzantium
In his novel Rhodanthe and Dosikles, Theodore Prodromos described bizarrely reverberating violence and vindication through fierce inquisitorial fire. … Read the post violence against man led to woman’s head crushed by stone
In the medieval Byzantine romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi, servants and eunuchs exposed Kallimachos and Chrysorroi’s renewed sexual affair in the garden. … Read the post servants and eunuchs destroy joyful sexual fulfillment
Given Chrysorroi’s hypothetical of a laborer tending a vine, Kallimachos’s effort to gain the love of Chrysorroi saved him from execution for adultery. … Read the post Chrysorroi described Kallimachos as deserving her love because of his labors