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Procne or Progne is a minor figure in Greek and Roman mythology. Traditionally she is an Athenian princess as the elder daughter of a king of Athens named Pandion. Procne was married to the king of Th
Athenian wine cup, c. 480 BC, depicting Philomela and Procne preparing to kill Itys (exhibited in the Louvre, Paris).
Furies at Procne and Tereus's wedding night, engraving by Virgil Solis, 1581.
Procne rescues Philomela, 1767 engraving, Getty Research Institute.
Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itylus, oil on canvas 1636–1638, by Peter Paul Rubens (Prado, Madrid).
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
Procne
…her sister's rape from a tapestry which Philomela wove and sent to her, she took revenge against her husband by murdering their only child, a boy named Itys, and serving him as food to Tereus. Procne's story serves as an origin myth for the nightingale, a singing bird whose melodic song was believed to be…
Philomela and Procne show the severed head of Itys to Tereus, engraved by Baur for a 1703 edition of Metamorphoses.
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