Tereo encierra en un antigno castillo a Filomela su cunada despues de haberla violado y cortado la lengua · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Tereo encierra en un antigno castillo a Filomela su cunada despues de haberla violado y cortado la lengua
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Thrace; Ancient Greece
Description: Tereus, a Thracian prince, had become infatuated with his wife Procne’s sister named Philomela. He abducted her and put her into an old building in the middle of the forest where he raped her. To prevent Philomela from screaming or asking for help, he cut out her tongue. Philomela is depicted sitting down in this image as she screams and pulls on her hair. Tereus is depicted pulling out his sword from his sheath to cut out her tongue.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24987
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_24987_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Procne; Tereus; Philomela; Rape; Abduction; Mutilation; Mythology