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The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Dissertation (MA) University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/107082 The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses Haskins, Susan u18051228@tuks.co.za Roberts , Tshiamo Cecilia Mmakuba UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ovid’s Metamorphoses Power relations Resistance Vengeance Gender Patriarchy Women Dissertation (MA) University of Pretoria, 2025. This dissertation is a feminist literary study that explores the complex power dynamics between men and women in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The aim of this research is to focus on how female characters navigate their positions within a patriarchal mythological framework. Through a close analysis of chosen episodes from the Metamorphoses, it examines how women are disempowered by societal structures, in the form of authority figures such as gods and kings, but also how they are able to assert agency, particularly through acts of resistance and vengeance. By interrogating moments of both subjugation and empowerment of specific women, this study reveals a nuanced portrayal of female autonomy in a text that simultaneously reinforces and challenges traditional gender hierarchies. The female figures I focus on are Callisto, Juno, Hecuba, Telethusa, Iphis, Isis, Philomela, and Procne. These characters encounter various forms of subjugation and oppression within a patriarchal society, and display differing levels of resistance and empowerment. The distinct circumstances they face enable a multifaceted analysis of gendered power dynamics from various perspectives. University of Pretoria Postgraduate Scholarship Ancient Languages MA (Ancient Culture Studies) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities None 2025-12-04T19:16:45Z 2025-12-04T19:16:45Z 2026-04 2025-09-15 Dissertation * A2026 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107082 Disclaimer Letter en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ovid’s Metamorphoses Power relations Resistance Vengeance Gender Patriarchy Women The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title | The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title_full | The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title_fullStr | The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title_short | The Diversity of Women's Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| title_sort | diversity of women s power in ovid s metamorphoses |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ovid’s Metamorphoses Power relations Resistance Vengeance Gender Patriarchy Women |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107082 |