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WOMEN'S VOICES IN THE LUCIANIC ONOS: THE TALE OF THE ‘EDIBLE MAN’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2015

Elizabeth Dollins
Elizabeth Dollins*
Affiliation:
Cheltenham Ladies' College, UK
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*E-mail: dollinse@cheltladiescollege.org
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Abstract

This article argues that female characters are active participants in the text of the Onos. Among women who are in control of their experiences we encounter the slave girl Palaestra. She uses a forceful metaphor equating a man with the food being prepared in her kitchen, which prefigures much of the ensuing narrative and has the effect of transforming Lucius into food/text to be consumed by the reader. It becomes clear that she and various other female characters, whose abilities go further than the usual novelistic antagonistic skill of controlling their own experience and manipulating other characters, choose and choreograph Lucius' narrative.

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Research Article
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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 61 , December 2015 , pp. 15 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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