person
Procne
Wife of Tereus who killed their son Itys in revenge and was turned into a bird; here the mourning nightingale of the lament.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §687 the mournful nightingale
Procne, who killed her son Itys to avenge Tereus's crime and was turned into the nightingale.
- Hercules on Oeta §173 the Daulian bird
Procne (or Philomela), turned into a nightingale (or swallow) at Daulis in Phocis after the murder of Itys; she mourns her son.
- Hercules on Oeta §860 Thracian wife
Procne, the Thracian queen who killed her son Itys; another of the great murderesses Deianira would join.