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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

Satyricon

The Satyricon (also called Satyrica) is a Latin work thought to have been written about 65 GC by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. The Satyricon mixes prose and poetry and combines in places epic diction with mundane, comic events. It chronicles the misadventures of the retired illustrious gladiator Encolpius, his sixteen-year-old boyfriend Giton, and the lecherous old poet Eumolpus. The Satyricon depicts marginalized men’s encounters with highly privileged women as these men strive to improve their lives and enjoy their sexuality.

limit to gender justice: lessons of ancient & medieval sumptuary laws

The failures of Roman and medieval sumptuary laws on women’s fancy dress reveal the limit to gender justice: what women want must be permitted. … Read the post limit to gender justice: lessons of ancient & medieval sumptuary laws

men forced to offer sacrifices amid intimate-partner violence

Inmate-partner violence hurts men, old, young, fat & thin. It has compelled men to accept being cuckolded and castrated. Those are terrible sacrifices. … Read the post men forced to offer sacrifices amid intimate-partner violence

women’s beauty and men’s under-appreciated work of desire

As Guibert of Nogent understood, the classical idea of beauty was closely associated with desire. Guibert noted that desire requires from men sexual labor. … Read the post women’s beauty and men’s under-appreciated work of desire

now-unspeakable wrong: resisting cuckolding in medieval Europe

Peter Abelard gave his son Astralabe advice on cuckolding. Glyco’s response to his steward cuckolding him in the Satyricon show men’s difficult position. … Read the post now-unspeakable wrong: resisting cuckolding in medieval Europe

Abelard’s advice to his son Astralabe & Trimalchio’s Fortunata

Trimalchio’s marriage to Fortunata in the Satyricon shows difficulties with medieval philosopher Peter Abelard’s advice about women to his son Astralabe. … Read the post Abelard’s advice to his son Astralabe & Trimalchio’s Fortunata

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