2007
DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.150
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Barbarian variations : Tereus, Procne and Philomela in Ovid (Met. 6.412-674) and Beyond

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“…Tereus, furious, draws his sword and chases the two sisters into the woods, where the trio, so Ovid tells us, are transformed into birds: Philomela into a nightingale, Procne into a swallow, and Tereus into a "a bird with a crest on his head/And an outsized beak instead of a sword" ). 12 This story has been given a wide array of interpretations emphasizing its feminist context, or the specifically sexual violence inflicted on Philomela's powerless body (see for instance Marder 1992; Gildenhard and Zissos 2007;Natoli 2017). I would like to call attention to the unique way it stages the relationship between lament and revenge as two sibling responses.…”
Section: Philomelamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tereus, furious, draws his sword and chases the two sisters into the woods, where the trio, so Ovid tells us, are transformed into birds: Philomela into a nightingale, Procne into a swallow, and Tereus into a "a bird with a crest on his head/And an outsized beak instead of a sword" ). 12 This story has been given a wide array of interpretations emphasizing its feminist context, or the specifically sexual violence inflicted on Philomela's powerless body (see for instance Marder 1992; Gildenhard and Zissos 2007;Natoli 2017). I would like to call attention to the unique way it stages the relationship between lament and revenge as two sibling responses.…”
Section: Philomelamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…976-80), but the fact remains that only at the end is Procne similar to Atreus. Procne ends where Atreus begins.As I have discussed above, Seneca embeds his reception of the story of Procne within a larger thematic framework, mirroring Ovid's own linking of Tereus' and 415 Discussed in detail byGildenhard/Zissos (2007).416 Cf. Schiesaro (2003), 76.…”
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