The abuse of patriarchal power in Rome: the rape narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

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The abuse of patriarchal power in Rome: the rape narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

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By around 8AD the Metamorphoses, a single poem divided into fifteen books, had been completed by Publius Ovidius Naso. The text, written in the meter of epic, links together over two hundred myths through the theme of transformation. In the poem there is an unprecedented prevalence of rape stories. The Metamorphoses is essentially an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman myth. Ovid includes stories of rape to be faithful to these traditional myths. It is not his inclusion of these stories which tr...

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Masters

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2018

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Tinkler, K.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/15175

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