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Highlights

  • 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

Virgil

Anchises loving Aphrodite: progress for men in love with goddesses

In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Anchises had sex with the goddess Aphrodite, overturned divine female supremacy, and retained his vital vigor. … Read the post Anchises loving Aphrodite: progress for men in love with goddesses

Zeus should have rejected Thetis’s plea for her son Achilles

Thetis pled to Zeus to help the Trojans so as to shame Agamemnon for dishonoring her son Achilles. Many men were killed because Zeus didn’t say no. … Read the post Zeus should have rejected Thetis’s plea for her son Achilles

master Virgil’s magic mirror saved husband from murderous wife

The great poet Virgil, revered as a magician in medieval Europe, constructed a magic mirror to save a husband from his adulterous, murderous wife. … Read the post master Virgil’s magic mirror saved husband from murderous wife

Aeneid against Rhome & Trojan women burning ships to found Rome

Virgil’s Aeneid responded to Epic Cycle (non-Homeric archaic Greek epic) tradition of the woman Rhome leading Trojan women in burning ships to found Rome. … Read the post Aeneid against Rhome & Trojan women burning ships to found Rome

Juno’s hate sent Allecto to inflame Amata, Turnus, and bitches

Virgil in Aeneid 7 depicts Juno via Allecto inflaming Queen Amata, Turnus, and misread bitches to incite massive violence against men in ancient Italy. … Read the post Juno’s hate sent Allecto to inflame Amata, Turnus, and bitches

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