Caeneus
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In Greek mythology, Caeneus (Ancient Greek Καινεύς or Kaineus) was a Lapith hero of Thessaly and, in Ovid's Metamorphoses— where the classical model of a hero is deconstructed and transformed— originally a woman, Caenis. In Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, where there is no inkling of his transgender, he was briefly noted as the great father of a lesser son, Coronus, who sailed forth among the Argonauts. The striking mythic image of this hero is that, indomitable through his more-than-human power, his enemies the Centaurs resorted to driving him into the ground with fir pine timbers:
they could neither force him to yield, nor yet dispatch him,
but unbowed, unbroken, he went into earth down under,
crushed by a shattering hail of heavy pine trunks.
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