The rage of Achilles arose from love madness. Clarifying the Iliad, the Roman de Troie showed Achilles’ mad love & treacherous reason to marry Polyxena. … Read the post reason and rage of Achilles after gazing on Polyxena
The medieval mock epic De Lombardo et lumaca questions classic gender-devaluation of men through a Lombard husband’s needless battle with a snail. … Read the post Lombard risked life against wife’s advice for epic victory over snail
Achilles & Aeneas flyting in Homer’s Iliad are less vicious than Rose & Lily quarreling in Sedulius Scottus’s poem. Heroes, less fighting, more flyting! … Read the post women flyting, serious fighting: Homer’s Aeneas versus Rose & Lily
Hawk-dove metaphors in Homer and Hesiod (nightingale) develop to reverse the gender of the female victim & indicate socially normative violence against men. … Read the post how Homer and Hesiod used gender in hawk-dove metaphors
The Judgment of Paris shows that when women get naked, competition among them for men’s favor resolves more quickly. More clothes means broader competition. … Read the post Judgment of Paris teaches economics of female sexual competition