Powerful, legendary Roman women Pompeia and Fulvia generated gender-excusing in the medieval romances Roman de Merlin and Roman de Silence. … Read the post Pompeia and Fulvia in Roman de Merlin & Roman de Silence
Medieval men’s prayers acknowledge that their concubines rule over them, yet both Cicero & Ecclesiastes urged men not to be subservient to wives / women. … Read the post Cicero & Ecclesiastes against concubines dominating men
Cicero’s pithy words on education can be understood through the medieval Latin work Solomon and Marcolf and a lively poem of Luxorius. … Read the post Cicero unpacked: piss on learned hypocrites to cultivate public fields
If Octavian hadn’t rejected her sexual tyranny, Fulvia may well have become the supreme ruler of the Roman Empire as Caesar’s mistress-master. … Read the post Fulvia: female tyrant amid collapsing Roman Republic