Philomela
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
The Funeral Speech
Daughter of Pandion, sister of Procne, joined in avenging Tereus's crime against them; ancestral exemplar for the Pandionidae.
The Pandionidae had inherited the tradition of Procne and Philomela, the daughters of Pandion, who took vengeance on Tereus for his crime against themselves.
Ad Nationes
Mythological figure whose tongue-cutting is invoked as a comparison to the nurse in the Psammetichus story.
Come now, suppose she did keep her life by the remedies of Philomela — whose silence the more prudent interpret not from any cutting of the tongue, but from the blush of shame.