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 & 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
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
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
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