Transwomen suffer historically entrenched, systemic gender discrimination & exclusion exemplified in ancient myths of Iphis & Ianthe and Leucippus & Daphne. … Read the post discrimination against transwomen: Iphis & Ianthe, Leucippus & Daphne
The bellwether Tityrus in Sedulius’ De quodam verbece points Theocritus, Virgil, and the Bible to castration culture. Pastoral needs the seminal blessing. … Read the post Tityrus the bellwether in the terrible ram vision of Sedulius Scottus
Swallowed by a whore’s whale-vagina, the Archpoet figured himself as Jonah & begged his patron for relief from poverty. He even offered to castrate himself. … Read the post Archpoet suffered like Jonah & offered to castrate himself for wine
Prudentius’ Hamartigenia uses a lurid account of vipers’ mating to signify perverse gynocentrism. Cocks crowing represent hope for new light & worldly life. … Read the post generation of vipers will be overcome when cocks crow
Earinus was sent to be Roman Emperor Domitian’s slave-boy sex-toy. Earinus was castrated to preserve his youthful beauty, then Domitian forbade castration. … Read the post Earinus, Emperor Domitian, and laws against castration