An iStory
by Lisa K. BuchananIn Ovid’s tale, the virgin Philomela was raped by her effusively devoted brother-in-law, who then cut out her tongue, raped her again, and imprisoned her in a stone hut to keep her quiet—except that she, clever gal, wove a tapestry exposing the heinous breach and then sent it to the man’s wife, her sister, Procne.
