Philomela

The story of "Philomela," "penned to approve women's chastity," is the best of Greene's tales, and approaches more closely the modern novel than any work of the time.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

It comes chiefly from Austria and Siberia; yet Greene in his "Philomela," 1615, speaks of "the Hyssop growing in America, that is liked of strangers for the smell, and hated of the inhabitants for the operation, being as prejudicial to the one as delightsome to the other."

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

Hicks told me this afternoon that 'Philomela' was by Shakspere. "

The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

In Greek myth, weaving is how women tell their stories, whether it is Arachne, Philomela, Helen or Penelope.

Texture : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Singer is best known for her volume of poetry, Poems on Several Occasions by Philomela (1696), as well as her devotional prose.

Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

Many of the poets when they make mention of the nightingale (Philomela) apply to the bird the epithet Daulian.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

For Tereus dwelt in Daulia, a part of the region which is now called Phocis but in those days was inhabited by Thracians, and in that country Itys suffered at the hands of the women Procnè and Philomela.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

It was the middle-aged dipsy nymph I had treated like a prostitute, who called herself Philomela.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

I had warned her previously that I thought Philomela was not all there. '

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

So you do have a wife! 'commented the so-called Philomela.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005