person
Procne
also: the Daulian bird
Wife of Tereus who killed her son Itys in revenge and was turned into a nightingale (the Daulian bird), forever singing his name.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.19 swallow
Procne (or Philomela), turned into a swallow with a blood-marked breast after killing her son Itys in revenge — a grim parent like Medea.
- The Heroides §15 the Daulian bird
Procne, turned to a nightingale, who forever mourns her son Itys; the only bird singing in Sappho's grove.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 impious Procne
Procne, who killed her son Itys to avenge Tereus; named among monstrous women as the opposite of the gentle Livia his wife must approach.
- Metamorphoses §6.143 Procne
Daughter of Pandion and wife of Tereus; to avenge her sister Philomela she killed their son Itys and served him to his father, and was turned into a bird (the swallow or nightingale).