Editing Caeneus (section)

===Transformation===
Caeneus was originally a woman named Caenis who was transformed into a man by the sea-god [[Poseidon]].<ref>[[Acusilaus]], [https://scholarlyeditions-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0002.bnjo-3-tr1-eng:f22 fr. 22] {{harvnb|Toye}} [= [https://archive.org/details/early-greek-mythography-volume-1/page/n30/mode/1up fr. 22] {{harvnb|Fowler}} = [https://archive.org/details/ancillatopresocr0000diel/page/18/mode/2up fr. 40a] {{harvnb|Freeman}}]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.275.xml?result=1&rskey=N2LO7y fr. 165] [[#CITEREFMost2018b|Most]] [= fr. 87 {{harvnb|MW}}]; {{harvnb|Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:12.146-12.209 12.168–209]}}; {{harvnb|Apollodorus|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.1.22 E.1.22]}}; {{harvnb|Plutarch, ''How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue''|loc=[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_how_man_may_become_aware_his_progress_virtue/1927/pb_LCL197.405.xml?result=1&rskey=rQ62zU 75 E]}}; {{harvnb|Lucian, ''De Saltatione''|loc=[https://archive.org/details/lucianhar05luciuoft/page/262/mode/2up 56]}}; {{harvnb|Lucian, ''Gallus''|loc=[https://archive.org/details/lucianhar02luciuoft/page/210/mode/2up 19]}}; {{harvnb|Antoninus Liberalis, ''Metamorphoses''|loc=[https://topostext.org/work/216#17 17]}}.</ref> Although possibly as old as the [[Hesiodic]] ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' (c. first half of the sixth century BC),{{sfn|Most|2018a|loc=[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL057/2018/pb_LCL057.liii.xml p. liii]}} the oldest secure mention of this transformation comes from the mythographer [[Acusilaus]] (sixth to fifth century BC).<ref>{{harvnb|Fowler|2013|p=160}}. As for the possibly older [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.275.xml?result=1&rskey=N2LO7y fr. 165] [[#CITEREFMost2018b|Most]] [= fr. 87 {{harvnb|MW}} = [[Phlegon of Tralles|Phlegon]], ''On Marvelous Things'' 5], according to Fowler, "some doubt must attach to the list of authorities at the outset of Phlegon's account."</ref> According to Acusilaus, after having sex with Poseidon, Elatus' daughter—here instead called Caene—did not want to have a child by Poseidon or anyone else, due to an unspecified vow or prohibition against it;{{efn|According to [[Robert Fowler (academic)|Robert Fowler]], the implication in Acusilaus' telling is that, because intercourse with a god would always produce a child, his transformation would prevent this. He also suggests that the prohibition was perhaps one involving intercourse in a sanctuary or with a virgin priestess.{{sfn|Fowler|2013|p=161}}}} to prevent this, Poseidon transformed Caene into an invulnerable man, stronger than any other.<ref>{{harvnb|Fowler|2013|pp=160–161}}; {{harvnb|Gantz|1996|p=281}}; [[Acusilaus]], [https://scholarlyeditions-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0002.bnjo-3-tr1-eng:f22 fr. 22] {{harvnb|Toye}} [= [https://archive.org/details/early-greek-mythography-volume-1/page/n30/mode/1up fr. 22] {{harvnb|Fowler}} = [https://archive.org/details/ancillatopresocr0000diel/page/18/mode/2up fr. 40a] {{harvnb|Freeman}}].</ref> However, according to the usual version of events, after having sex with Caenis, Poseidon promised he would do whatever Caenis wanted, so Caenis asked to be transformed into an invulnerable man, which Poseidon did.<ref>{{harvnb|Fowler|2013|p=160}}; {{harvnb|Gantz|1996|p=281}}; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.275.xml?result=1&rskey=N2LO7y fr. 165] [[#CITEREFMost2018b|Most]] [= fr. 87 {{harvnb|MW}}]; {{harvnb|Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:12.146-12.209 12.168–209]}}; {{harvnb|Apollodorus|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.1.22 E.1.22]}}; {{harvnb|Scholia D on Homer, ''Iliad''|loc=[https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/5586/1/vanthiel.pdf#page=55 1.264]}}.</ref>