Philomela
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.4|Procne and Philomela carving up [[Itys, Temple of Apollo, Thermos, terracotta metope, c. 630–625 BC]] thumb|upright=1.4|"The Rape of Philomela by Tereus", engraved by Virgil Solis for a 1562 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book VI, 519–562)
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- Family
- Mythology
- Variations on the myth
- Elements borrowed from other myths and stories
- Appearances in the Western canon
- From antiquity and the influence of Ovid
- In Elizabethan and Jacobean England
- In Classical and Romantic works
- In modern works
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- Notes
- References
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thumb|upright=1.4|Procne and Philomela carving up [[Itys, Temple of Apollo, Thermos, terracotta metope, c. 630–625 BC]] thumb|upright=1.4|"The Rape of Philomela by Tereus", engraved by Virgil Solis for a 1562 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book VI, 519–562)
Philomela () or Philomel (; , or ) is a minor figure in Greek mythology who is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon.
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