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8 cze 2007 · Tereus coming a second time to Athens, takes back with him to his kingdom Philomela, his wife’s sister; and having committed violence on her, with other enormities, he is transformed into a hoopoe, while Philomela is changed into a nightingale, and Progne becomes a swallow.
Ovid's Procne rescues her raped and mutilated sister Philomela while Thrace is celebrating a biennial festival in honour of Bacchus. In the Metamorphoses no special emphasis is given to the wild women-only Bacchanal. But in Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Love of the Nightingale (first performed in 1988) the secret rites in which Procne participates
Not so, the love-hot Tereus, king of Thrace, who, sleepless, imaged in his doting mind the form of Philomela, recalled the shape of her fair hands, and in his memory reviewed her movements. And his flaming heart pictured her beauties yet unseen.—He fed his frenzy on itself, and could not sleep.
Following, at times, Ovid’s plot, in Tennant’s story Philomela is taken, forced, and raped by Tereus who, having cut out her tongue, leaves her imprisoned in a castle and tells Procne that she has died.
The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela To Thebes the neighb'ring princes all repair, And with condolance the misfortune share. Each bord'ring state in solemn form address'd, And each betimes a friendly grief express'd. Argos, with Sparta's, and Mycenae's towns, And Calydon, yet free from fierce Diana's frowns.
Ovid’s story of Philomela, the virginal girl raped by her brother-in-law Tereus and subjected to the removal of her tongue, is perhaps surprising in its popularity with early modern writers. The Metamorphoses is bursting both with instances of rape, presented...
Ovid’s story of Philomela, the virginal girl raped by her brother-in-law Tereus and subjected to the removal of her tongue, is perhaps surprising in its popularity with early modern writers.
