Cyrus the Great captured the fabulously wealthy King Croesus of Lydia and blessed him with gender equality with his wife. … Read the post captive King Croesus finally achieved gender equality with wife
Herodotus’s still-relevant story of Hippocleides among competing suitors of Agariste stunningly protests against tyrant-ruler Cleisthenes devaluing men. … Read the post Hippocleides doesn’t care: great moment of men’s sexed protest
Without Herodotus’s rationality, Gorgias, Isocrates & modern sophists defend horrible Helen, who motivated the Trojan War’s massive violence against men. … Read the post Gorgias’s defense of Helen: sophism for self-centered beauty
Castration culture runs through Western civilization from Homer’s Odyssey to popular ballads to Shakespeare’s plays to modern academic work. Men must rise! … Read the post castration: sexual violence against men historically entrenched
Drawing upon Homer, Hesiod, and Herodotus, Byzantine classicist John Tzetzes mocked a man for desiring Paionic daughters for their asses rather than their work. … Read the post Tzetzes mocked man oblivious to need for gender equality in sex & work