<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid

<p>My dissertation argues for the importance of understanding the depiction of sexualized violence and rape in the Roman poet Ovid’s extensive corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures participating in misogyny). It explores sexualized violence and rape in Ovid long-form, examines the discernible patterns that emerge and the deviations from them as he depicts that violence throughout his texts, and more importantly, introduces victim-blaming and sororophobia into an analysis of these patterns. Despite the fact that previous scholars have done substantial analyses of the patterns of sexualized violence and rape in Ovid’s texts, my dissertation demonstrates—for the first time—how and why the phenomena of victim-blaming and sororophobia should be seen as fundamental parts of those patterns.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Classics

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Marturano, Melissa

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ronnie Ancona

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Dee Clayman
• Philip Thibodeau

• Classical Literature and Philology
• Classics
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• History of Gender
• Women's Studies
• Ovid
• Classical Literature
• Feminism
• Rape
• Victim-Blaming
• Sororophobia
• Rome
• Heroides
• Amores
• Ars Amatoria
• Metamorphoses
• Fasti
• Tristia
• Epistulae ex Ponto

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2303

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-3339