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Philomela
Athenian princess raped and mutilated by Tereus and turned into a nightingale (or swallow); her endless song laments the old crime.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.6 Philomela
Athenian princess turned nightingale, whose song forever laments the crime of Tereus; an old grief beside the parrot's fresh one.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.3 daughter of Pandion
Philomela (or her sister Procne), daughter of the Athenian king Pandion, changed into a bird; even caged, she strives back to her native woods.
- Ibis §16 unwilling rival of her own sister
Philomela, raped by her sister Procne's husband Tereus, who cut out her tongue.
- Metamorphoses §6.144 Philomela
Daughter of Pandion and sister of Procne, raped and mutilated by Tereus; she revealed the crime by weaving it, shared in the revenge on Itys, and became a bird (the nightingale or swallow).
- The Cure for Love §2 Philomela
Sister of Procne, raped and mutilated by Tereus; in the myth she becomes a nightingale (or swallow).
- The Cure for Love §14 the imprisoned sister
Philomela, sister of Procne, whom Tereus shut away and violated.