Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), eminent Latin poet, is known for sparkling works on myth and love. He lived from 43 BGC to about 17 GC.
Transwomen suffer historically entrenched, systemic gender discrimination & exclusion exemplified in ancient myths of Iphis & Ianthe and Leucippus & Daphne. … Read the post discrimination against transwomen: Iphis & Ianthe, Leucippus & Daphne
Phyllis & Flora debated knights versus clerics as women’s lovers. The medieval Council of Remiremont ruled in favor of clerics, then wealthier than knights. … Read the post Phyllis & Flora on knight v. cleric: Council of Remiremont ruling
In Ovid’s Heroides & Musaeus’s Hero and Leander, Leander promises to swim again across the Hellespont to Hero. Now Leander insists on gender equality. … Read the post Leander to Hero: it’s your turn to swim
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, transsexual Tiresias affirmed Jove against Juno in finding that women receive more sexual pleasure in heterosexual intercourse. … Read the post Tiresias’s prophetic knowledge started with Juno and Jove’s dispute
Comparing Ovid’s Amores (Loves) 2.15 to a twelfth-century recasting of it, De pulice (The Flea) shows fearful effects of criminalizing men loving women. … Read the post De pulice: women can sleep either with fleas or with men