A young man in the ancient world died in insane love for Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus. Like all men, he deserves sympathy and compassion. … Read the post Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus caused death of insanely loving man
From the Homeric Hymn to Hermes to Priapus in Horace’s Satires 1.8, the iambic tradition teaches that farting isn’t enough for relief from oppression. … Read the post Hermes and Priapus against oppression: farting isn’t enough
Amid Iliadic war dance and violence against men, men amazed in dancing for pleasure. Overturning gender, men dancing pleasurably affirms men’s human being. … Read the post men dancing for war and pleasure in ancient Greek poetry
Shipwrecked on Scheria, the naked Odysseus met the lovely princess Nausicaa doing laundry. In a dream-romance Odyssey, he would have become her husband. … Read the post Phaeacian princess Nausicaa: a dream-romance wife for Odysseus
Odysseus killed his son Euryalus because of Penelope’s false claim. Theodulf in Charlemagne’s court rightly warned husbands to resist being subordinate to their wives. … Read the post husbands resisting subordination to their wives: an ongoing challenge