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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.
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.
When Philomela realised that she had reached that accursed house, the wretched girl shuddered in horror, and her whole face grew deathly pale. Procne, once there, took off the religious trappings; uncovered the downcast face of her unhappy sister, and clutched her in her arms.
Philomela story: as a means, that is, of communicating what has happened to her. Philomela wove a tapestry and sent it to Procne to inform her that she had been raped and her tongue cut out by Tereus, Procne’s husband. Shakespeare’s tongueless woman, Lavinia, who is ‘deeper read and better skilled’ than the boy she
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.
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.
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...
