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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

Xenophon

captive King Croesus finally achieved gender equality with wife

Cyrus the Great captured the fabulously wealthy King Croesus of Lydia and blessed him with gender equality with his wife. … Read the post captive King Croesus finally achieved gender equality with wife

selfless eunuchs followed Panthea’s suicide at Abradatas’s death

Panthea and Abradatas in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia patterned romance, yet three selfless eunuchs who also died signal an oppressive, morbid pattern. … Read the post selfless eunuchs followed Panthea’s suicide at Abradatas’s death

Piers Plowman: sober, common labor over symposia of Plato & Xenophon

For doing good, Piers Plowman elevates sober, common labor over the Socratic intellectual practices of Plato’s Symposium and Xenophon’s Symposium. … Read the post Piers Plowman: sober, common labor over symposia of Plato & Xenophon