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Nestled in Book Six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, following the flaying of Marsyas and the rejoining of Pelops’s severed body, comes one of the most horrific and haunting of Ovid’s myths of transformation, the tale of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela:
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Starks-Estes, L.S. (2014). Introduction. In: Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349927_1
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