Calypso held Odysseus captive and repeatedly raped him. With help from truly men-loving goddesses Ino & Athena, Odysseus shed the weight of Calypso’s abuse. … Read the post Odysseus through horrific storm leaves behind captivity under Calypso
Calypso rapes Odysseus in the Odyssey. That’s no more symbolically unusual than brutalizing men’s sexuality. A Homeric cento created a different voice. … Read the post Homeric cento subtly reverses gender to refigure men’s sexuality
Penelope remained faithful to Ulysses even with him away for twenty years. Under gender ideology of men as providers, Ulysses didn’t understand her love. … Read the post Penelope faithful, but Ulysses afraid to return home poor
A medieval sailor much simpler than Odysseus didn’t understand that not all women are like Penelope. He desperately needed God’s help. … Read the post not Penelope: sailor’s wife claims God provided him with a son
The Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad is vital for recovering Homer’s effaced figure of Palamedes, a hero unlike Odysseus. … Read the post Homer effaced Palamedes to heroize word-twisting Odysseus
The ancient Greek king Menelaus foolishly endorsed forgetfulness about the many men who were killed as a result of Helen’s betrayal & the Trojan War. … Read the post Menelaus ordered forgetfulness in response to Helen’s betrayal & lies
The archaic Greek poet Archilochus may have written a lengthy satirical challenge to marriage and the nostos of Homer’s Odyssey. … Read the post counter nostos: wonder of men willing to marry in ancient Greece
Plutarch’s Gryllus makes clear that men must become pigs if human societies are to achieve a virtuous ideal of gender equality. … Read the post Plutarch’s Gryllus proves “men are pigs” is a virtuous ideal