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How to use Philomela in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Philomela? Here are some examples.

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It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm.
Beard progressed to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Tereus rapes Philomela and then cuts out her tongue so that she cannot denounce him.
Consider the myth of Procne and Philomela, from Book 6 of the Metamorphoses.
Apart from Philomela, Marjukka Riihimäki also directs in Helsinki, the chamber choir Grex Musicus and the female voice choir of the Klemetti Institute.
Many of the choric odes in Atalanta formally echo the song of Philomela in the tradition of lyric pain.
Rounding out the team is Philomela Salem, an artist, educator and advocate of child wellbeing.
Jessica Levenstein examines the motif of Philomela and Procne from Ovid's Metamorphoses and treats their function in Dante's Purgatorio.
The Love of the Nightingale, a 1989 adaptation of the Greek legend of the rape of Philomela, and her 1992 art-world satire Three Birds Alighting on a Field are among the most successful.
King Tereus rapes Philomela and then, to silence her, cuts out her tongue.
Afterward, Philomela serves Tereus his deserts when she tricks him into eating his son, but when he tries to finally slay Philomela, she morphs into a bird and escapes.
Classical mythology figures such as Echo and Narcissus and Philomela turn up readily in such a space, but so does a figure like the Apache Changing Woman.
The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
Examples from Classical Literature
Why, Philomela, are you complaining of the cruelty of Tereus, the Ismarian tyrant?
The sight of a painting makes it necessary for him to relate the whole story of procne and Philomela to Leucippe.
The Philomela as made by Jardine is a melodia with two mouths.
As the boat regained her speed, Philomela Brooks approached him.
Pandion, a king of Athens, was father of Progne and Philomela.
Philomela regarded him for a moment with an expression of pity and horror.
Thereupon Procne became a swallow, and Philomela a nightingale.
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