Procne
Family: Thrace · Role: wife of Tereus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5
In Book 1, Chapter 5, Procne is described as married to Tereus. By Chapter 24, she is named as the mother of Itys, whose father is given as Alcamenes; Chapter 41 calls her the daughter of Pandion.
In Book 1, Chapter 41, Procne and Philomela murdered Itys.
Relationship record
Life events
- Procne and Philomela murdered Itys.(Book 1 · Chapter 41)
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- married with Tereus “They say that Tereus (though married to Procne)”
Book 1 · Chapter 24
- child: Itys (Procne is Itys's mother.) “Here too are cruel Procne and her son Itys, by Alcamenes.”
- with Alcamenes (Alcamenes is identified as the sculptor of the representation.) “Here too are cruel Procne and her son Itys, by Alcamenes.”
Book 1 · Chapter 41
- parent: Pandion (Parent-to-child.) “Tereus, who married Procne the daughter of Pandion”
- married with Tereus (Married couple.) “Tereus, who married Procne the daughter of Pandion”
- with Itys (Procne murdered Itys.) “after the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
- with Philomela (They jointly murdered Itys.) “after the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
- with Philomela (Procne and Philomela jointly participated in the murder of Itys.) “the murder of Itys by Procne and Philomela”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.