"Da femina ne sim": gender, genre and violence in Ovid's caenis episode

• Autores: Debra Freas
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 114, Nº 1, 2018, págs. 60-84
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Neptune rapes Caenis in Book 12 of Ovid's Metamorphoses and then grants her a wish. She replies with da femina ne sim, an utterance that has important implications for any discussion of her rape as well as the gender and genre dynamics of the Caenis-Caeneus episode. From the standpoint of genre, Caenis' request rejects the programmatic features which would make her rape sequence a conventional Hesiodic ehoie. From the standpoint of rape, it acknowledges that women and men are vulnerable to sexual violence, a reading that is borne out in the Centauromachy where Caeneus is defeated with phallic symbols.