Philomela
Family: Greek · Role: damsel · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5
In Book 1, Chapter 5, Tereus dishonoured Philomela and subsequently murdered her. In Book 1, Chapter 41, she and Procne murdered Itys.
At Daulis in Book 10, Chapter 4, Philomela became a bird and was “in dread both of Tereus and his country.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Tereus dishonoured Philomela and subsequently murdered her.(Book 1 · Chapter 5)
- With: Tereus
- “They say that Tereus (though married to Procne) dishonoured Philomela, not acting according to the law of the Greeks: and, having still further murdered the damsel, he compelled the women to punish him.”
- Procne and Philomela murdered Itys.(Book 1 · Chapter 41)
- Philomela became a bird and thereafter feared Tereus and his country.(Book 10 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Daulis)
- “the Phocians say that when Philomela became a bird she was in dread both of Tereus and his country.”
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- with Tereus (interaction) “and, having still further murdered the damsel, he compelled the women to punish him”
Book 1 · Chapter 41
- enemies with Tereus (Tereus committed vile conduct against Philomela.) “And his subjects would no longer obey Tereus after his vile conduct to Philomela”
- with Itys (Philomela participated in the murder of Itys.) “after the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
- with Procne (They jointly murdered Itys.) “after the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
- with Tereus (Tereus committed vile conduct against Philomela.) “his subjects would no longer obey Tereus after his vile conduct to Philomela”
- with Procne (Procne and Philomela jointly participated in the murder of Itys.) “the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
Book 10 · Chapter 4
- with Tereus (Philomela feared Tereus.) “And the Phocians say that when Philomela became a bird she was in dread both of Tereus and his country.”
- enemies with Tereus “and the Phocians say that when Philomela became a bird she was in dread both of Tereus and his country.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.