As in the twin engravings by Antonio Tempesta (Plates 3 and 4), of Tereus and Philomena, and the Procnean banquet, the follow-through from rape to death was a frequent Renaissance theme.
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Procnean
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In making his Althaea post- and propter-Procnean, Ovid extends the same rhetoric of maternal revenge and the conflictual passions and identities associated with it, [...]
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[...] in order to explore the links between thought and action, Cydippean mora and Procnean revenge.
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