person
Tereus
Thracian king, husband of Procne, whose crime against Philomela the birds of the lament forever recount.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §687 her dread husband
Tereus, the Thracian king whose outrage on Philomela the sister-birds forever lament.
- Thyestes §24 Thracian abomination
The crime of Tereus, the Thracian king served his own son Itys by his wife Procne — the mythic model for Atreus' feast.
- Thyestes §270 Odrysian house
The Thracian (Odrysian) house of Tereus, who was fed his son Itys; Atreus seeks to outdo that crime.