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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

Ovid

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.

penal systems: Ovid on Silenus’s ass braying at Priapus

Ovid’s Fasti tells of Silenus’s ass braying to prevent Priapus from raping Lotis or Vesta. Ovid mocks myths supporting brutally unjust penal systems. … Read the post penal systems: Ovid on Silenus’s ass braying at Priapus

god of love advised medieval victim of war on men

As a medieval man learned only late, men should seek the true god of love to overcome the war on men. … Read the post god of love advised medieval victim of war on men

Radegund of Thuringia loved Amalfred in Jerome’s way

Radegund’s learned letter-poem De excidio Thoringiae expresses ardent love for Amalfred with Jerome’s sense of men’s disadvantaged gender position. … Read the post Radegund of Thuringia loved Amalfred in Jerome’s way

Chrétien de Troyes excused Philomena for killing her innocent son

Tereus married Procne. He raped her sister Philomena and cut out her tongue. Procne & Philomena killed Procne’s son Itys and fed him to his father Tereus. … Read the post Chrétien de Troyes excused Philomena for killing her innocent son

break the classical circle: love beyond castration and cuckolding

The medieval poem “Profuit ignaris” and Rabelais’s Tiers Livre show the classical circle of castration and cuckolding without true love for men. … Read the post break the classical circle: love beyond castration and cuckolding

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