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What does Philomela mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Philomela? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A female given name, particularly (mythology) the sister of Procne who is raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus and supposedly transformed into a bird by the gods.
  2. (literary) The nightingale.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A lover of song.
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Consider the myth of Procne and Philomela, from Book 6 of the Metamorphoses.
Rounding out the team is Philomela Salem, an artist, educator and advocate of child wellbeing.
Thereupon Procne became a swallow, and Philomela a nightingale.
Beard progressed to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Tereus rapes Philomela and then cuts out her tongue so that she cannot denounce him.
Jessica Levenstein examines the motif of Philomela and Procne from Ovid's Metamorphoses and treats their function in Dante's Purgatorio.
As the boat regained her speed, Philomela Brooks approached him.

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