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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...
1 sty 2011 · 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 story of Tereus and Philomela: summary. Philomela and Procne were sisters, daughters of Pandion, King of Athens. A Thracian man, Tereus, married Procne. However, Tereus desired his sister-in-law, Philomela, and he took her by force.
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.
Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter studies one of the best-known Attic legends, the retold story of Philomela, and how it has been used as a paradigm for the retelling of colonial encounters in the works of several contemporary postcolonial writers.
CHAPTER 8 PALIMPSESTIC PHILOMELA: REINSCRIPTION IN CHAUCER’S “LEGEND OF PHILOMELA” Gila Aloni In rewriting Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI, Chaucer partially erases his source to make room for his own “Legend of Philomela.” M y analysis focuses on one aspect of literary production in the
This chapter is intended as a ‘case study’ to demonstrate the conceptual, contextual, and definitional commonalities between torture and domestic violence from a psychological perspective. A ...
