Itys
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In Greek mythology, Itys is a minor mythological Thracian character, the son of Tereus, a king of Thrace, by his Athenian wife Procne. Itys was murdered by his own mother and aunt and served to be con
Athenian wine cup, circa 480 BC, depicting Philomela and Procne preparing to kill Itys (Louvre, Paris)
Philomela and Procne show the severed head of Itys to Tereus, engraved by Baur for a 1703 edition of Metamorphoses.
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Philomela or Philomel is a minor figure in Greek mythology who is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon.
Itys
…mother and aunt and served to be consumed during dinner by his father, as part of a revenge plan against Tereus for assaulting and raping the maiden Philomela, Procne's sister. Following those events, Itys' immediate family were all transformed into birds afterwards, and in some versions he too joins them in…
Procne and Philomela carving up Itys, Temple of Apollo, Thermos, terracotta metope, c. 630–625 BC
"The Rape of Philomela by Tereus", engraved by Virgil Solis for a 1562 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book VI, 519–562)
"The Rape of Philomela by Tereus", book 6, plate 59. Engraved by Johann Wilhelm Baur for a 1703 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses