Hera’s deception of Zeus (Dios apate / Διὸς ἀπάτη) in the Iliad indicates enduring, heartless disregard for epic violence against men. … Read the post horrific violence against men: context for Hera’s deception of Zeus
Thetis pled to Zeus to help the Trojans so as to shame Agamemnon for dishonoring her son Achilles. Many men were killed because Zeus didn’t say no. … Read the post Zeus should have rejected Thetis’s plea for her son Achilles
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