[Sca-cooks] Quail eggs ( was: no subject)

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:52 AM 3/12/03 -0600, you wrote:
>
>There is a Greek myth about Philomena, who was indeed raped (seduced,
>tricked, whatever) by her sister's husband, who cut out her tongue so she
>couldn't tell. She wove a tapestry telling her story, and sent it to her
>sister. The sisters escaped from the evil husband but he caught up with
>them, and so they prayed to the gods for help. Procne (the sister) was
>turned into a nightingale, Philomena was turned into a swallow (some
>versions have sparrow) who can twitter but cannot sing. The evil husband
>was turned into another sort of bird.

That sounds really familiar- I can't remember who much (if any) Boccaccio
altered it. (Of course I'm running off of memory on that one- it's been
five or six years since I took Ital 341...)

I remember thinking there were similarities to Lavinia in _Titus
Andronicus_...

'Lainie
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