Procne
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the nightingale
in the texts
Birds
The nightingale, mythic wife of Tereus, summoned from the thicket to sing and to be seen by the two Athenians.
Euelpides:
Euelpides:
Pisthetaerus:
The Funeral Speech
Daughter of Pandion who, with her sister Philomela, avenged Tereus's crime against them; ancestral exemplar for the Pandionidae.
The Pandionidae had inherited the tradition of Procne and Philomela, the daughters of Pandion, who took vengeance on Tereus for his crime against themselves.
Heracles
Mythical mother who killed her only child, invoked by the Chorus as a point of comparison to Heracles' killing of three children.
I could tell of the murder done by Procne, mother of an only child, offered to the Muses;