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teacher-martyrs defy authority for peace, justice, and truth
Governments address domestic violence with billions of dollars directed through the highest fora. The world needs good government action. Looking for a way out of the COVID-19 quarantine, the greatest...
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Archpoet suffered like Jonah & offered to castrate himself for wine
In 1164, the Archpoet begged his patron Rainald of Dassel for help. Rainald was Archbishop of Cologne and Archchancellor of Italy for the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. When Rainald came to...
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moral reflection in Parthenius’s poets summons to self-judgment
According to Parthenius of Nicaea, both the eminent ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and ancient writers of sensational Milesian tales told the story of Cleoboea and Antheus. Cleoboea was the wife...
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Peter Dronke’s death and a renaissance of medieval Latin literature
How are you commanding me, little boy, for what are you telling me, little son, to sing a sweet song, while I am far away in exile, within this sea? O why are you commanding me to sing? { Ut quid...
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rape of men in Parthenius shows compassion and justice is possible
In our time of ignorance and bigotry, many persons don’t know that about as many men suffer rape as do women. Just think about the most probable origin of the expression “cover your ass.” Moreover, in...
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Tityrus the bellwether in the terrible ram vision of Sedulius Scottus
Dark-browed girl with beautiful glances, all stony-hearted, embrace me, your goatherd, so that I can kiss you. There is a sweet pleasure even in empty kisses. { ὦ τὸ καλὸν ποθορεῦσα, τὸ πᾶν λίθος, ὦ...
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how Homer and Hesiod used gender in hawk-dove metaphors
Both Homer’s Iliad and Hesiod’s Works and Days employ metaphorically a strong, violent male hawk attacking a weak, helpless, female dove or nightingale. Constructed threats to females commonly...
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solidarity among men promotes gender equality & social justice
To overcome millennia of gynocentric oppression, solidarity among men is essential. When a person is killed, few even notice that he’s a man. Large anti-men bias in criminal justice generates little...
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women flyting, serious fighting: Homer’s Aeneas versus Rose & Lily
Scholars have documented that women are biologically superior to men in a variety of ways, including communicatively. However, within the disastrous tradition of epic violence against men, Homer’s...
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husbands resisting subordination to their wives: an ongoing challenge
Husbands commonly credit all their success to their wives and engage in small and large acts of yes-dearism. Doing otherwise is scarcely permitted within today’s social construction of gender...
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motherhood, fatherhood, and fundamental gender inequality
Women know their biological children for certain. Without modern DNA testing, men lack that certainty. That’s a fundamental gender inequality. Gynocentric societies have tended in recent decades to...
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Tibullus with Parthenius against Gallus on gender in love & war
In the first century BGC, Parthenius of Nicaea supplied Cornelius Gallus with ancient Greek stories to use in his poetry. Gallus became renowned as the earliest of the great Latin love elegists.[1] A...
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Propertius & Prudentius show gender allocation of credit and blame
To demonstrate romantic sensibility and gain warm acclaim, a successful man often proclaims that he owes all his success to his wife. Under the common law of coverture, a husband is assigned...
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Walahfrid’s rural rose & lily respond to love and war in Roman elegy
In the first century BGC, the eminent Roman military leader and poet Cornelius Gallus influentially associated love and war in Latin elegy. Gallus’s love elegy celebrated violence against men in war...
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change must come: learn from Lygdamus & Propertius vs. domina Cynthia
Men can understand the experience of Lygdamus and Propertius. They were under Cynthia’s thumb. A highly privileged domina {ruling lady} in first-century BGC Rome, Cynthia held Lygdamus as her household...
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