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Philomela

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Philomela
violated by Tereus, king of Thrace; he cuts out her tongue to prevent her from revealing his conduct. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 783]
See : Mutilation
Philomela
raped by Tereus, who cut out her tongue to prevent her from revealing the act. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 783]
See : Rape
Philomela (Philomena)
changed by gods into nightingale. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 205–206]
See : Transformation
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20) Ovid's Philomela story reaches its climax only after Tereus has finished half his meal.
The cook and the cannibal: Titus Andronicus and the new world by Goldstein, David B. / Shakespeare Studies
She is cruelly erased by a society that outlaws her beauty and her voice, much the same way Philomela was reduced to silence" (Kolin 72).
Forgotten Manuscripts: "Blues for Emmett Till": The Earliest Extant ... by Kolin, Philip Charles / African American Review
Kathryn McKinley also shows how Ovid emboldened another medieval poet, John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, this time to attempt a moral transformation in his royal reader, Richard II, by using Ovid's tales of Tereus and Philomela and Jason and Medea to warn against perfidy.
Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern ... by Dimatteo, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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