10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEREUS»
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Tereus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Word and Image in Ancient Greece
in Ovid's Metamorphoses (vi.424-674), as well as various other more pedestrian
versions;" but these are all generally assumed to go back to Sophocles' famous,
influential, but lost tragedy Tereus, of which we possess quite a few fragments ...
N. K. Rutter, Brian A. Sparkes, 2000
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Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus
Hyginus Fabulae 45, however, says that after Tereus married Procne he returned
to Athens to ask Pandion to allow him to marry Philomela, saying that Procne had
died. Pandion gave Philomela to him and sent guards with her. Tereus threw ...
3
Weaving the Word: The Metaphorics of Weaving and Female ...
Tereus, Procne, Philomela The most brutal of all the weaving stories, recent
scholarship devotes ample attention to this myth of horror and revenge." Ovid's
version divides the story into two parts with the weaving scene poised as a
caesura or ...
Kathryn Sullivan Kruger, 2001
4
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
This vignette of Pel- ops looks hack to Lycaon at hook L163-252 (who sought to
serve human Ilesh to Jupiter) and forward to Procne's and Philomelas killing,
cooking, and serving Procne's son Itys to his father. Tereus, in the next episode.
5
Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and ...
In Ovid, the tales of Tereus and Philomela and Jason and Medea are found
nearly side-by-side in neighbouring books (Met. 6.401—674 and 7.1-404),
although in the reverse order in which Gower presents them. In Ovid, the Tereus
tale falls ...
Alison Keith, Stephen James Rupp, 2007
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Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
story, he does so on the myth's own terms, with four arguments: (1) Contrary to
the idea that Tereus was from Thrace proper, the tradition held that he was from
Daulis in Phocis, where Thracians had resided in “ancient” times. (2) Like any
good ...
7
Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of ...
Tereu This brief stanza is an allusion to the myth of Philomela and her sister
Procne, daughters of the king of Athens, and of Procne's husband King Tereus of
Thrace. It is alluded to in parts II, III, and V of The Waste Land and in almost all ...
Jewel Spears Brooker, 1992
8
John Gower's Poetic: The Search for a New Arion
Since within the compass of the tale Tereus's 'selfhood' has been defined wholly
through his relationship with Progne, his abandonment of grace here leads first to
lost identity and thence to a loss of humanity altogether. We should observe ...
9
The Fragments of Sophocles
When Procne learnt the truth — for Tereus had made excuse that Philomela was
dead — she sought out her sister, and, in concert with her and in order to be
revenged upon her husband, killed her son Itys, cooked his flesh, and served it
as a ...
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, W. G. Headlam, A. C. Pearson, 2010
10
The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama
Athenian audience; and (3) that the transformation of Tereus as a tragic model in
Birds is essential to the basic design of the latter, its governing metaphor, and the
(partial) identification of Aristophanes with Peisetaerus in parucular 1t is ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEREUS»
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Tereus is used in the context of the following news items.
The Mike Toole Show - Need for Seed
This naturally freaks Deunan out, but the fact is, Tereus is charming and sympathetic, and when Briareos grudgingly accepts him as an equal on the force and ... «Anime News Network, Jul 15»
College students bring Greek tragedy to life
Their lives are ripped apart when the war hero Tereus (Robert Waller) enters their lives and their father, King Pandlion (Masha Khomunala), gives Procne to him ... «Zoutnet, Apr 15»
Hoag Lecture Series: Marjorie Agosín and the Brave Acts of the …
Agosín related the acts of the arpilleristas to the Greek myth of Philomela, the “princess of Athens” who was raped by her sister's husband Tereus and had her ... «Vanguard Dahlonega, Mar 15»
A Contemporary Twist on Rubens's Legacy
The protagonist of the myth — Tereus, the king of Thrace — rapes his sister-in-law and tears her tongue out; the victim's sister later serves the king his own son's ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
Love of the Nightingale: dark but important message
“One of the hardest challenges of my life has been this role,” said Baxter Wilhelm, 18, an English theatre freshman from Westminster, Md. who played Tereus, the ... «The Eastern Progress Online, Oct 14»
'If We Were Birds' portrays women as spoils of war
Philomela's sister, Procne, was given to Tereus as a gift from her father, Athenian King Pandion. As played by Ethan Bjelland, King Tereus epitomizes the Prince ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sep 14»
The Troll Slayer
Beard progressed to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Tereus rapes Philomela and then cuts out her tongue so that she cannot denounce him. Beard alighted on ... «The New Yorker, Aug 14»
'Oneira: I Dream the Self' at Studio C Gallery in Los Angeles
Prokne was the daughter of Pandion, King of Athens. She had a beautiful sister named Philomela. Prokne was betrothed to a cruel husband,Tereus of Thrace. «Huffington Post, Jun 14»
REVIEW: 'TROUBLEfuturesongs' with Leonard Bernstein's 'Trouble …
The evening'g other table-setter, also a mere 10 minutes long, was a more traditionally operatic if highly abbreviated setting of the savage myth of Tereus, ... «Classicalite, May 14»
'The Love of the Nightingale': Constellation masters Greek tragedy …
Rescuing the Athenians and their King Pandion I, from certain military defeat, Tereus wins Pandion's elder daughter Procne as his wife, and carries her off to his ... «DigiNews, May 14»
