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1 janvier 2020
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- doi: 10.54563/eugesta.247
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Statius Thebaid Juno Jupiter Bacchus Virgil metapoetics gender inequality gender imbalance characterisationSujets proches
Womyn Wimmin Woman Womon Human females Affliction Talking Peacemaking Peace making Reconciliatory behavior Aches Speechlessness Dumbness Literary tradition Artistic influence Literary impact Tradition (Literature) Artistic impact Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literary influence Article Social inequality Social equality Inequality Egalitarianism Ethology Tradition in literature Literary tradition Quarrel of ancients and moderns Battle of the books Moderns and ancients, Quarrel ofCiter ce document
Elena Giusti, « Casta Diva: Juno’s “Unexpected Pain” in Statius’ Thebaid », Eugesta - Revue sur le genre dans l'Antiquité, ID : 10.54563/eugesta.247
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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.