Luxorius wrote epigrams in Latin in Carthage, north Africa, early in the sixth century GC. Carthage was then under the rule of an east Germanic tribe known as Vandals, but the Vandals preserved traditional Roman beliefs and culture. Luxorius had high status among men in Carthage. His epigrams were highly regarded prior to the modern period.
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In two epigrams about the exotic woman dancer Gattula, Luxorius indicated that no amount of money can compensate for ugliness and anti-meninist attitude. … Read the post what do men want? Gattula shows women’s misunderstandings
Luxorius’s Paula, an eagerly remarrying widow, is a particularly perverse counterpart to Jerome’s Paula. … Read the post Luxorius refigured Jerome’s patron Paula as oft-remarrying widow
In Luxorius’ epigram Virgo, quam Phlegethon in Codex Salmasianus, the erasing of the old virgin raping a man can be emended with behaviorial philology. … Read the post erasing woman raping man: the old virgin in Codex Salmasianus
The social construction of the male gaze is interrupted and interrogated in Luxorius’ brilliant epigram mocking misandristic ridicule of men as being gay. … Read the post taunting woman for hating men in late Roman misandristic culture
Expanding poetic understanding of Saint Marina, Luxorius figured Marina as the traditional Greco-Roman love goddess Aphrodite. … Read the post Marina, love goddess as well as saint, is true heroine to men
Luxorius’s 6th-century Latin poem in praise of the hundred-petaled rose highlights gender disparity in poetic treatment of vagina compared to penis. … Read the post praise of hundred-petaled rose underscores gender inequality
Cicero’s pithy words on education can be understood through the medieval Latin work Solomon and Marcolf and a lively poem of Luxorius. … Read the post Cicero unpacked: piss on learned hypocrites to cultivate public fields
In 6th-century Roman North Africa, the poet Luxorius addressed women who desire more to compete with men than to have pleasurable sex with men. … Read the post Luxorius on women’s desire to compete with men
In a comical reversal, the host Blumarit’s extravagant hospitality pushed the poet Luxorius toward starvation. … Read the post Luxorius: sixth-century African poet against dinner invitations