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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.
Feb 15, 2024 · Behind the Holy Bible, Ovid’s Metamorphoses has inspired the most art in human history. Much of what we know of mythology that we consider correct comes from this Epic poem, though there is a ...
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Philomela can’t look Procne in the eyes, fearing that Procne might hate her as a rival. Furthermore, Procne realizes, in siding with her sister over her husband, that she can no longer love her son—the image and offspring of her detestable husband.
The tale of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela is one of the bloodiest and most grotesque in all of the Metamorphoses. To the familiar stew of deception, rape, and mutilation, it adds the murder of a child and cannibalism.
The two had a son, Itys, and when he was fve years old Procne, who had all this while been living in Thrace separated from her family, begged Tereus to let her invite her sister Philomela to visit her. He agreed, and said he would go to Athens himself and escort her.
Philomela’s rape, mutilation, revenge with her sister Procne/Progne, and her metamorphosis into the nightingale are the subjects of or models for various retellings and allusions, and matched only in reference to rape mythology by the legendary Lucrece (discussed in the following chapter).
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According to Sophocles' treatment of the myth, Tereus, king of Thrace and husband of Procne, one of the daughters of Pandion, king of Athens, raped Procne's sister Philomela, cut her tongue, and told his wife that her sister had died. Philomela, however, wove a peplos and sent it to Procne.
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