Tereus

Family: Thrace · Role: son of Ares · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.14

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Tereus)

Life events

Tereus concealed Procne, seduced Philomela, and cut out her tongue.(Apollodorus, Library 3.14)
- With: Philomela Procne
- “Tereus had by her a son Itys, and having fallen in love with Philomela, he seduced her also saying that Procne was dead, for he concealed her in the country. Afterwards he married Philomela and bedded with her, and cut out her tongue.”
Procne killed Itys and served him to the unwitting Tereus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.14)
- With: Procne Itys
- “And having sought out her sister, Procne killed her son Itys, boiled him, served him up for supper to the unwitting Tereus, and fled with her sister in haste.”

parent: Ares “Tereus, son of Ares, from Thrace”
married with Procne “he gave Tereus his own daughter Procne in marriage.”
child: Itys “Tereus had by her a son Itys”
admired: Philomela “having fallen in love with Philomela, he seduced her also”
with Philomela (Tereus married and sexually assaulted Philomela.) “Afterwards he married Philomela and bedded with her, and cut out her tongue.”
with Pandion (Pandion arranged or gave Procne in marriage to Tereus.) “he gave Tereus his own daughter Procne in marriage”
married with Philomela “Afterwards he married Philomela and bedded with her”
with Procne (Tereus pursued Procne.) “When Tereus was aware of what had happened, he snatched up an axe and pursued them”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.