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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

Iliad

reason and rage of Achilles after gazing on Polyxena

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

Lombard risked life against wife’s advice for epic victory over snail

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

women flyting, serious fighting: Homer’s Aeneas versus Rose & Lily

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

how Homer and Hesiod used gender in hawk-dove metaphors

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

Judgment of Paris teaches economics of female sexual competition

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

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