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In revenge for Panionios of Chios castrating & selling him as a eunuch, Hermotimos had him and his four sons castrated, perpetuating castration culture. … Read the post more castration won’t end castration culture
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
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
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo celebrates Apollo slaying an evil dragon and foiling Hera’s conspiracy for oppressive gynocracy. You should, too! … Read the post dancing Apollo slayed dragon serving Hera’s oppressive gynocracy
A young man in the ancient world died in insane love for Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus. Like all men, he deserves sympathy and compassion. … Read the post Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus caused death of insanely loving man
The eminent, robust ancient poet-philosopher Philodemos ardently supported diversity and inclusion in love for women, not hate for anyone. … Read the post Philodemos shows diversity and inclusion in love for women
Plutarch’s Amatorius tells of the widow Ismenodora kidnapping, and raping / marrying Bacchon, a young man she was advising in love of Aphrodite & Eros. … Read the post Ismenodora kidnapped and married her student Bacchon
In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter , Demeter rages more violently than Achilles over Zeus having arranged for Hades to marry their daughter Persephone. … Read the post missing Persephone, raging Demeter sought to exterminate humanity
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed for a religious festival, has a comic heart in the obscene jesting and genital self-exposing of Iambe / Baubo. … Read the post Iambe / Baubo with obscenity cheered despondent goddess Demeter
Ancient Songs of Priapus learnedly critique dildos in Herodas’s Mimiambs 6 & 7 in impudently rejecting crude sexual objectification of men. … Read the post Priapus against dildos and men being sexually objectified