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Giusti, Elena (2020) Casta Diva : Juno’s “Unexpected Pain” in Statius’ Thebaid. EuGeStA (European Network for Gender Studies in Antiquity) (10). pp. 163-206.
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Abstract
The innovative character of Juno in Statius’ Thebaid seems to challenge and correct the previous portrayals of the goddess in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The present article argues that Statius goes further in this challenge than has so far been recognised, by making both Juno’s ineffective speech and her speechlessness and inaction indicative of the gender imbalance that has long caused her suffering, and her vindictive features, in the epic literary tradition. Statius’ Thebaid casts Juno as a woman wounded from the very start of her existence, and suggests that it is precisely out of this feminine wound that both the goddess and the poem can achieve a productive reconciliation in the epic’s closure.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius). Thebais, Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism, Goddesses in literature | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | EuGeStA (European Network for Gender Studies in Antiquity) | ||||||
| Publisher: | Universite de Lille | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2265-8777 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||
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| Number: | 10 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 163-206 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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