Totally recasting Thetis and the shield, W. H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” expresses differently the continuing gender horror of the Iliad and war. … Read the post gender horror in W. H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles”
Amid Iliadic war dance and violence against men, men amazed in dancing for pleasure. Overturning gender, men dancing pleasurably affirms men’s human being. … Read the post men dancing for war and pleasure in ancient Greek poetry
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
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
In the Iliad, Trojan prince Paris responded meekly to his brother Hector and his wife Helen goading him to fight the Greek king Menelaus. … Read the post Hector and Helen goaded Paris to fight Menelaus