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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

Homeric hymns

dancing Apollo slayed dragon serving Hera’s oppressive gynocracy

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo celebrates Apollo slaying an evil dragon and foiling Hera’s conspiracy for oppressive gynocracy. You should, too! … Read the post dancing Apollo slayed dragon serving Hera’s oppressive gynocracy

missing Persephone, raging Demeter sought to exterminate humanity

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Demeter rages more violently than Achilles over Zeus having arranged for Hades to marry their daughter Persephone. … Read the post missing Persephone, raging Demeter sought to exterminate humanity

Iambe / Baubo with obscenity cheered despondent goddess Demeter

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed for a religious festival, has a comic heart in the obscene jesting and genital self-exposing of Iambe / Baubo. … Read the post Iambe / Baubo with obscenity cheered despondent goddess Demeter

Hermes and Priapus against oppression: farting isn’t enough

From the Homeric Hymn to Hermes to Priapus in Horace’s Satires 1.8, the iambic tradition teaches that farting isn’t enough for relief from oppression. … Read the post Hermes and Priapus against oppression: farting isn’t enough

Sappho’s gender-defying love for her brothers Charaxos & Larichos

In her “Brothers Poem,” Sappho loved her brothers Charaxos and Larichos beyond masculine gender roles of merchant-trader and Iliadic warrior. … Read the post Sappho’s gender-defying love for her brothers Charaxos & Larichos

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