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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Odyssey

Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus caused death of insanely loving man

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

Hermes and Priapus against oppression: farting isn’t enough

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

men dancing for war and pleasure in ancient Greek poetry

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

Phaeacian princess Nausicaa: a dream-romance wife for Odysseus

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

husbands resisting subordination to their wives: an ongoing challenge

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

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