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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
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Evagrius of Antioch’s non-ascetic Life of Anthony translation won

The relative cultural prestige of the source and destination languages, not popular success, governed the techniques of ancient translations. … Read the post Evagrius of Antioch’s non-ascetic Life of Anthony translation won

fidelity and seduction in ancient intimate cross-cultural encounters

Sexual seduction is a more fertile field for elite literary elaboration than is religious or political fidelity, yet less socially functional. … Read the post fidelity and seduction in ancient intimate cross-cultural encounters

Galen and Paul of Tarsus against the Epicureans

Galen and Paul criticized the Epicureans and led passionate, tumultuous lives radically different in substance, but similar in form. … Read the post Galen and Paul of Tarsus against the Epicureans

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