Tereus Marries Procne
- Tereus = King of Thrace
- Procne = daughter of King of Athens
- The two were married with none of the gods, fates, etc there under the bad omen of a screech owl- they also made babies
- Procne's sends her husband to go pick up her sister for a visit. When he gets there and sees her, he becomes completely filled with list for her. Now Tereus REALLY wants Procne's sister to come home and he pleads quite passionately with the king, even going so far as to cry during his speech. He is viewed as incredibly loyal and is given the a-ok.
Tereus Rapes Philomela
- Tereus spends all night thinking of Philomela and the next day the king sees her off with love and the promise of return. They shove off and arrive in his domain where he takes Philomela off to a high-walled tower and locks her away. Then, he rapes her- taking her virginity as she cries out for help (what a douche).
- Philomela mourns and screams at Tereus. He gets scared and angry so he cuts out her tongue with his sword before raping her again. Then, he went back to his wife, leaving Philomela in his tower, and told her that her sister had died which sends Procne into deep mourning.
Procne's Revenge
This crazy story can be found here!
- Holy crap this one was a trip! I think I might use it for my storytelling this week.
- A year had gone by now.
- Procne has woven a tapestry illustrating the crime committed on her. She gives it to a servant to give to her sister who reads it and rushes off with vengeance on the brain. Procne adorns herself with a deerskin, vine wreath and javelin. She breaks down the tower door and rescues her sister before taking her secretly into the palace. Procne tells her sister that she's willing to go to war with her husband over his wickedness. Procne kills her son- stabbing him and slicing his throat open. She then chops her son up and cooks him before serving him to her husband. When she reveals that he has eaten his son, he asks where the boy is and Philomela throws the child's dismembered head at him.
- Tereus then goes after the women with his sword, but they turn into birds and fly awau. Procne becomes a nightingale. Philomela becomes a swallow (and that is why the swallow has a red belly-because she was forever stained from the murder). Tereus also changes into a bird, a hoopoe, which looks like it's armed.
Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itylus
By Peter Paul Rubens, found on Wikipedia
Medea and Jason-The End
- I've actually read the entire Medea tragedy before and love sit. I read it for my Revenge Tragedy class a few semesters back.
- Medea loves Jason with all her heart. The two get married, she tries to use magic to extend his father's life-it works, the two work to kill Jason's evil brother who stole the throne from him, and pop out a few pups before Jason turns out to be a total douche and leaves Medea even after she had to betray her family (and therefore get country) to be with him. He leaves to go be with a younger princess.
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