Procne

Marries Tereus.

Genealogy

Zeuxippe

Pandion

Butes, Cercyon, Erechtheus, Philomela

Tereus

Itys

Places
  1. Attica
  2. Daulis
Events
  1. Pandion gives Tereus his daughter Procne
  2. Philomela communicates with Procne by weaving the story into a cloth
  3. Procne kills Itys and serves his flesh to Tereus
  4. Tereus, realizing what happened, chases Procne and Philomela
  5. Procne and Philomela get caught in Daulia and pray to the gods to be turned into birds
  6. Procne becomes a nightingale, Philomela a swallow and Tereus a hoopoe
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.8
  2. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 5.4
  3. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 24.3
  4. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 41.8
  5. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 4.9
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