If you're still confused why today so many women who have been assaulted are still not believed, there are people who refuse to believe me, a white male with a PhD in Classics, for saying that Medusa was raped.
...really? What part of 'vitiasse' in Ovid, Met. 4.799 do they think implies consent? ...Actually, looking at some English translations, my word that verb gets bowdlerized. The Perseus translation (Brookes More, 1992) renders it as 'attained her love' which no.
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Quod erat demonstrandum, Bret.
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No kidding! What a terrible translation!
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vitiasse itself is not exactly clear cut. Ovid uses that verb in Heroides 12 where there is no question that the conception was consensual. I still read the scene in Met 4 as a rape, but it needs more context than that verb I think. Too complex for twttr.
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12? I can't find it there.
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I mean I won't argue that Ovid wrote her as being raped. But I will argue that Ovid isn't GREEK mythology. If people are talking about Greek myths then Hesiod's origin is the one to go to
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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