Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Caeneus.
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Nestor's inset tale: Caenis becomes invulnerable Caeneus and is crushed by centaurs under a pile of trees — Ovid's gender change at the Lapith wedding.
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Caeneus
The Lapith transformed from Caenis — unpierceable warrior, buried alive, a figure modern reception keeps for the metamorphosis itself.
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Lapiths
Caeneus' people at Peirithous' feast — the centauromachy that ends the invulnerable man's career.