Under Juno’s prompting and in love for her brother Turnus, Juturna disastrously incited Italians to break a single-combat agreement with the Trojans. … Read the post Juturna’s love for her brother Turnus no match for Juno’s hate
In the medieval Roman d’Eneas, Lavinia’s mother threatened to kill her if she loved Aeneas instead of Turnus and described Aeneas as a wretched Sodomite. … Read the post Lavinia’s love for Aeneas began with her mother’s murderous threat
Across 1700 years of the Aeneid’s literary reception, Virgil’s Dido has been gender-misinterpreted as love’s martyr and Aeneas as her seducer and betrayer. … Read the post martyr of love Dido suffered suicide & abortion of fetus with Aeneas
Reading well gender and violence against men in Parthenius’s stories, Tibullus challenged the poetic figuring of love and war in Gallus’s love elegy. … Read the post Tibullus with Parthenius against Gallus on gender in love & war
Ausonius’ Cento nuptialis & Proba’s Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, 4th-century Virgilian centos, challenge brutalizing men’s sexuality. Love isn’t war. … Read the post Ausonius and Proba on “love is war” and brutalizing men’s sexuality