Philomela

Family: Athens · Role: daughter of Pandion · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.14

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

Life events

Tereus concealed Procne, seduced Philomela, and cut out her tongue.(Apollodorus, Library 3.14)
- With: Tereus 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.”

parent: Pandion “and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela”
siblings with Procne “she revealed thereby to Procne her own sorrows. And having sought out her sister, Procne killed her son Itys”
admirer: Tereus “having fallen in love with Philomela, he seduced her also”
with Tereus (Tereus married and sexually assaulted Philomela.) “Afterwards he married Philomela and bedded with her, and cut out her tongue.”
with Procne (interaction) “Procne killed her son Itys, boiled him, served him up for supper to the unwitting Tereus, and fled with her sister in haste.”
siblings with Erechtheus “and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes”
siblings with Butes “and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes”
married with Tereus “Afterwards he married Philomela and bedded with her”

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