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In Greek mythology, Philomela was a daughter of Pandion I, King of Athens and Zeuxippe and a sister of Procne. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... In Greek mythology, Itys was the son of Procne and Tereus. ... In Greek mythology, Procne or Prokne was a daughter of Pandion and Zeuxippe. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Itys, Philomela and Procne (Discuss) In Greek mythology, Tereus was a son of Ares and husband of Procne. ... The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... Pandion I was son and heir to Erichthonius of Athens and the father of Erechtheus, Butes, Cecrops II, Procne, and Philomela by Zeuxippe. ... Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, Athens was ruled by kings. ... In Greek mythology, Zeuxippe was the name of several women. ... In Greek mythology, Procne or Prokne was a daughter of Pandion and Zeuxippe. ...

The myth

Procne's husband, Tereus of Thrace, agreed to travel to Athens and escort Philomela to Thrace for a visit. Tereus lusted for Philomela on the voyage. Arriving in Thrace, he forced her to a cabin in the woods and raped her. In Ovid's Metamorphoses Philomela's defiant speech is rendered as (in translation) "Now that I have no shame, I will proclaim it. / Given the chance, I will go where the people are, / Tell everybody; if you shut me here, / I will move the very woods and rocks to pity. / The air of Heaven will hear, and any god, / If there is any god in Heaven, will hear me." This incited Tereus to cut out her tongue and leave her in the cabin. Philomela then wove a tapestry (or a robe) that told her story and had it sent to Procne. In revenge, Procne killed her son by Tereus, Itys (or Itylos,) and served him to Tereus, who unknowingly ate him. When he discovered what had been done, Tereus tried to kill the sisters; they fled and he pursued but, in the end, all three were changed by the Olympic Gods into birds. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Itys, Philomela and Procne (Discuss) In Greek mythology, Tereus was a son of Ares and husband of Procne. ... Thrace (Bulgarian: , Greek: , Latin: , Turkish: ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms of Greek and Roman mythology. ... A human tongue The tongue is the large bundle of skeletal muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing, (deglutition). ... This article is about tapestry the textile. ... A dragon robe from Qing Dynasty of China A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. ... In Greek mythology, Itys was the son of Procne and Tereus. ... In Greek mythology, Itylus, or Itylos, was the daughter of Aedon and King Zethus of Thebes. ... The twelve gods of Olympus. ... Orders Many - see section below. ...

As in many myths there are variant versions. In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a raven; Procne into a nightingale, which has a beautiful song; Philomela was turned into a swallow, whose song is in mourning for Itys. Later sources, among them Ovid, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, write that although she was tongueless, Philomela was turned into a nightingale, and Procne into a swallow. Of these, some omit the tongue-cutting altogether. Eustathios' version of the story has the sisters reversed, so that Philomela married Tereus, who fell in love with Procne. Sophocles, as depicted in the Nordisk familjebok. ... Species See text. ... Binomial name Luscinia megarhynchos (Brehm, 1831) This article is about the bird. ... Genera Many, see text. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death of someone. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Hyginus can refer to: Gaius Julius Hyginus (c. ... Apollodorus was a common name in ancient Greece. ... Eustathius or Eustathios was the name of several historical persons: Eustathius of Antioch, a Patriarch of Antioch (c. ...

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Apollodorus. Bibliotheke III, xiv, 8; Ovid. Metamorphoses VI, 424-674. Apollodorus was a common name in ancient Greece. ... The Bibliotheke was renowned as the chief work of Greek historian and scholar. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms of Greek and Roman mythology. ...

Philomela and castration

Catherine Maxwell argues that "Philomela is not only castrated but castrating." She notes that "the image of her severed tongue is reminiscent of castration, a suggestion that is enforced by Ovid's graphic description in the Metamorphoses: 'the remaining stump still quivered in her throat, while the tongue itself lay pulsing and murmuring incoherently to the dark earth. It writhed convulsively, like a snake's tail when it has newly been cut off.'" Likewise, she castrates Tereus through (together with Procne) killing his son: "The vengeful anger of Procne and Philomela makes them into Bacchantes who participate in a sacred Dionysian sparagmos"--Maxwell has identified sparagmos with castration in her consideration of the death of Orpheus--"Procne, who has considered the possibility of either blinding or muting her husband"--both of which Maxwell's analysis has already associated with castration--"realises he will be punished more clearly by the loss of his son. Itys, described as 'the image of his father', and clearly his substitute as well as his heir, is violently slain and dismembered by the women. When Tereus is informed of his son's death, the wildly disarrayed and blood-bespattered Philomela mutely presents him with Itys' severed head. At one stroke Tereus' male issue and his hopes for futurity are decisively cut off."^[1] This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ...

Influences

• Sophocles wrote a tragedy about these events which has been lost, called Tereus.
• Philocles also wrote a set of plays about it.
• The story of Philomel is a key plot element in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
• T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land, has a number of mentions and allusions to this myth.
• "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, mentions Philomel in the second stanza.

William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... Title page of the first quarto edition (1594) The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeares earliest tragedy. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... T. S. Eliot (by E. O. Hoppe, 1919) The Waste Land (sometimes mistakenly written as The Wasteland) is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. ... Allusion is a stylistic device or trope, in which one refers covertly or indirectly Hollys Face. ...

References

1. ^ Catherine Maxwell, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness, Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. 22-23