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Joana Zaragoza

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to Ms Joana Zaragoza Gras, Ph.D., on the occasion of her retirement as professor at the Rovira i Virgili University, where she has been an example due to her dedication to teaching, research and management and for her social, academic and gender activism for more than forty years. From texts first translated into Catalan, the behaviour of Dionysus is analysed in chants XVI and XLVIII of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis, in which the god accomplishes the union with two virgin hunters faithful to Artemis, Nicea and Aura. The purpose of this paper, as the title implies, is to determine if the traditional denomination of theogamy is appropriated or should be replaced, simply, by rape.

Keywords: Classical Mythology, Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period, Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysism, J. Zaragoza.