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  • 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

Cicero

Pompeia and Fulvia in Roman de Merlin & Roman de Silence

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

Cicero & Ecclesiastes against concubines dominating men

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 unpacked: piss on learned hypocrites to cultivate public fields

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

Fulvia: female tyrant amid collapsing Roman Republic

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