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.
Nux {Walnut Tree}, attributed to Ovid, represents a man’s despair with harm from his seminal fruitfulness. Castration culture builds on such despair. … Read the post Ovid as walnut tree: men’s despair supports castration culture
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