Just as it is today, men criticizing women in the ancient world was dangerous. Whether it was the foolish lad Ascalabus criticizing the goddess Demeter for boozing, or the high official Telesphorus criticizing King Lysimachus’s wife Arsinoe for vomiting, the results were the same: disaster for the man. The goddess Demeter threw her drink onto …
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Almost everyone has heard of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They fought against Octavian for control of what would soon be the Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. They lost to Octavian. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But there is so much more to the story. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, …
Written 43 years after Mary Wollstonecraft wrote ‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman,’ and a decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, this essay provides a very different perspective on the power, and status of women of the time.
Feminism is about equality, how can you possibly say it’s a hate movement? Robert St. Estephe looks at the history, quotes the leaders, and proves that they said so themselves.
While the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic are well remembered today, less well known is the Kingdom of Rome. Legend claims that the city of Rome was founded in 753BCE. Romulus killed Remus in an act of fratricide and went on to found the city of Rome, naming it after himself. Romulus then invited …
Just because something seems innate doesn’t mean that it is
This is the first of a new series of videos ‘What Men Do’ in which we’ll show some of the extraordinary accomplishments of men today and in the past. –Ed
This entertaining video, perhaps inadvertently, shows how wrong the feminist historical narrative is. Points to watch out for: Eleanor’s father left his lands to her Eleanor had a good education and spoke Latin King Louis went out of his way to please his wife Eleanor Eleanor wasn’t afraid to speak her mind Eleanor clashed with …
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