What is the name of the Ancient Greek Character who had her tongue cut off to stop her telling who raped her?

Philomela


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What is the name of the Ancient Greek Character who had her tongue cut off to stop her telling who raped her?
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"The Voice of the Shuttle" comes from Sophocles and refers to Polymela, a young woman who was savagely raped by her brother-in-law, a Thracian king. To prevent her from telling her sister (his wife) what had happened, he cut out her tongue. Desperate, Polymela used the only means she had available -- she let her wooden shuttle speak for her as she wove the scenes of her rape and mutilation into a tapestry. When her sister saw it, she understood what had happened and took a terrible revenge upon her husband.


In this powerful 1984 paper (originally appearing in an earlier form in The Stanford Literature Review 1: 25-53), "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," by Dr. Patricia Klindienst, the myth is explored from a feminist perspective. This is one of the most brilliant and insightful essays I've read in years.





http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayli... [Link updated 8/30/00]
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