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Furthermore, in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses, Tereus, the king of Thracian, rapes his wife’s sister; he takes her into the woods. Philomela then threatens to tell the world that a noble king has raped her, and for that reason, Tereus decides to cut Philomela’s tongue off, rapes her again, as well as imprisons her in a cabin in the woods. Nonetheless, unable to speak, Philomela is forced to send a tapestry to her sister to reveal the Tereus’s crime. Philomela’s sister, Procne discovers that her husband is a rapist. Philomela and Procne decide to seek revenge, and they do so by killing Itys, Procne, and King Tereus’s son. Philomela for dinner then serves her husband their son’s body—pieces.
While eating dinner, Tereus asks to see his son, and Philomela
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