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.
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
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’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
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
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