Philomela
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. an Athenian princess who was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus and was subsequently avenged and transformed into a nightingale.
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(lowercase) philomel.
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Example Sentences
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Reed also points to how quickly and straightforwardly Bitsy games can be self-published to a web page, not unlike Philomela for games made using Twine.
From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2022
When she’s ready to give birth, Philomela flies to her side.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2019
Like Philomela, in Greek mythology, she can neither sing nor speak.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
As Willard Spiegelman, the editor of Southwest Review and a respected critic in his own right, wrote recently about Burt’s tastes: “Yesterday’s meadow morphs into today’s High Line, Keats’s Philomela into Lady Gaga.”
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2012
The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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