Itys

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.6 Itys

  Son killed by his mother Procne and served to Tereus in vengeance; mourned in the nightingale's song.

• The Heroides §15 Ismarian Itys

  Itys, the boy killed by his mother Procne; the nightingale's endless lament (Ismarus is a Thracian name).

• The Heroides §15 Itys

  The murdered boy mourned by the nightingale, twined with Sappho's own lament.

• Metamorphoses §6.143 Itys

  The young son of Tereus and Procne, killed by his mother and aunt and served to his father; transformed, with the others, into a bird.