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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

Catullus

Catullus on bridging the gender divide for Colonia

In Carmen 17, Catullus didn’t merely seek to thrust an impotent husband off Colonia’s bridge, but also to bridge a structural problem of the gender divide. … Read the post Catullus on bridging the gender divide for Colonia

Helen, Laodamia, Lesbia: dispelling men’s myths about women

Helen & Menelaus were like Lesbia & Catullus. Neither woman was like Laodamia of Phylace. Men accept women’s infidelities under oppressive gynocentrism. … Read the post Helen, Laodamia, Lesbia: dispelling men’s myths about women

Catullus to Secundus, then fall to ignorance, bigotry & intolerance

Poems of incarnated love were an unbroken tradition from Catullus in pre-Christian Italy to Secundus in 16th-century Europe. Modern culture dies without it. … Read the post Catullus to Secundus, then fall to ignorance, bigotry & intolerance

men’s unruly sexual imagination: a beauty white as whale’s bone

The Middle English poem “A wayle whyt ase whalles bon {A beauty white as whale’s bone}” (Harley lyrics) is a lively minstrel song of men’s sexual longing. … Read the post men’s unruly sexual imagination: a beauty white as whale’s bone

Priapea critique brutalizing & commodifying male gender stereotypes

Sophisticated Priapea (Priapus poems) urbanely critique the brutalizing social construction of men’s person and gender stereotypes. … Read the post Priapea critique brutalizing & commodifying male gender stereotypes

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