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Philomela (princess of Athens)
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In Greek mythology, Philomela was a daughter of Pandion I, King of Athens and Zeuxippe and a sister of Procne.
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Philomela and Procne showing Itys'head to Tereus. Engraving by Bauer for a 1703 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VI, 621-647Procne's husband, king Tereus of Thrace (son of Ares), 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.
As in many myths there are variant versions. In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a big-beaked bird whom some say is a hawk; Philomela was turned into a swallow, who cannot sing and only twitters because her tongue was cut out; Procne into a nightingale, which has a beautiful song in mourning for Itys. Later sources, among them Ovid, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, (but especially English romantic poets like Keats) 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.
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Philomela and ProcneThe names "Procne" and "Philomela" are sometimes used in literature to refer to a nightingale. Philomela can also be poetically abbreviated to "Philomel."
Apollodorus. Bibliotheke III, xiv, 8; Ovid. Metamorphoses VI, 424-674.
[ 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."]
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Philomel
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For the Greek mythological figure, see Philomela.
Philomel (French Philomle; German Philomele or Stahlgeige) is the name of a musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel, wire strings. The philomel has a body with incurvations similar to those of the guitar; therefore, without corner blocks, the outline of the upper lobe forms a wavy shoulder reminiscent of the viols but more ornate and fanciful. The peg-box sometimes terminates in a fancy head instead of a scroll. The philomel, never used in the orchestra, is considered by some the instrument of the dilettanti, frequently played in Germany with the bowed zither. The accordance of the philomel is the same as for the violin; the timbre is shrill and crystal-like. There is also an alto philomel corresponding to the viola. The bowed melodion is similar to the philomel, and has four steel strings of the same accordance as the violin, but arranged in inverse order; instead of being held like the violin and philomel, under the chin, it is placed on the knees of the performer, so that a hook under the fingerboard rests against the table.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Philomel also is another name for the nightingale, which perhaps is where the instrument gets its name.
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