In ancient Roman religion, Attis & castrated men Galli served the Great Mother goddess Cybele. Jerome and Augustine condemned this ritual gender oppression. … Read the post Jerome & Augustine valued men’s sexuality against Galli servants
Cicero and Horace disparaged the faithful translator, a Jew. The eminent Christian Syriac / Arabic translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq faithfully translated Galen. … Read the post faithful translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq promoted Galenic understanding
Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit is a sophisticated, highly literary work. Yet Jerome realistically depicted a woman raping a man. That’s real rape. … Read the post learned Jerome described rape in Life of Paul the First Hermit
The captive maiden of Deuteronomy 21:10-14 is no mere metaphor. Ausonius’s Bissula & Jerome in his letters followed Rabbi Akiba in understanding. … Read the post Ausonius’s Bissula & Jerome’s captive maiden: Rabbi Akiba understood
Jerome disparaged Homerocentones & Vergiliocentones, alluding to Proba’s Virgilian cento. Boccaccio and followers restitched Jerome’s words to praise Proba. … Read the post Homerocentones & Vergiliocentones from Jerome to Boccaccio and beyond