EPIC RAPES IN THE FASTI.

The article discusses the depiction of sexual assault in the second book of "Fasti," by Ovid through the book's two epic rape scenes. It tackles the differences between the rapes of Omphale by Faunus and of Lucretia by Sextus. It says that the rape of Omphale was full of epic diction and Virgilian a...

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Publicado en:	Classical Philology Vol. 106; no. 1; pp. 20 - 32
Autor principal:	Hejduk, Julia D.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Chicago Press Jan2011
Materias:	Fasti (Poem : Ovid) Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Omphale (Greek mythology) Faunus (Roman deity) Sextus, Empiricus, 160-210 Lucretia Rape in literature
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Sumario:	The article discusses the depiction of sexual assault in the second book of "Fasti," by Ovid through the book's two epic rape scenes. It tackles the differences between the rapes of Omphale by Faunus and of Lucretia by Sextus. It says that the rape of Omphale was full of epic diction and Virgilian allusion while the Lucretia's rape scene was made with an elaborate epic seriousness. It states that these episodes vary in length, consequences, and emotional and generic struggle.