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  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
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medieval romance

Roman de Thèbes reoriented ending of Statius’s Thebaid

The Roman de Thèbes ends more auspiciously for ending epic violence against men than does Statius’s Thebaid. Women’s laments for dead men aren’t sufficient. … Read the post Roman de Thèbes reoriented ending of Statius’s Thebaid

Penthesilea & her Amazon women warriors fought and died like men

Amazon Queen Penthesilea bought 1000 women warriors to the Trojan War. Penthesilea and more than half the Amazon women died fighting in the war. … Read the post Penthesilea & her Amazon women warriors fought and died like men

Hermione hated Andromache because Neoptolemus loved her

Neoptolemus, Achilles’s son, loved his Trojan concubine Andromache, Hector’s wife. Neoptolemus’s wife Hermione hated Andromache for being so lovable. … Read the post Hermione hated Andromache because Neoptolemus loved her

death of Ajax in the Roman de Troie

Ajax’s death in the 12th-century Roman de Troie suggests that the madness of Ajax was transmitted from the Greek Little Iliad to medieval France. … Read the post death of Ajax in the Roman de Troie

Helen and Paris’s love affair in medieval imagining

Helen and Paris’s love affair brought about the disastrous Trojan War, yet medieval poets imagined it romantically. Men’s deaths should matter more. … Read the post Helen and Paris’s love affair in medieval imagining

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