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
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
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
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
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Anchises had sex with the goddess Aphrodite, overturned divine female supremacy, and retained his vital vigor. … Read the post Anchises loving Aphrodite: progress for men in love with goddesses