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- Procne (/ˈprɒkni/; Ancient Gr****: Πρόκνη, Próknē [pró.knɛː]) or Progne is a minor figure in Gr**** mythology. She was an Athenian princess as the elder...
- Procne (Ancient Gr****: Πρόκνη) may refer to: Procne (or Prokne), sister to Philomela, as well as the wife of Tereus, and mother of Itys. Procne and Itys...
- sent it secretly to Procne. Lynceus' wife Lathusa who was a friend of Procne, at once sent the concubine (Philomela) to her. When Procne recognized her sister...
- daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens, and the naiad Zeuxippe. Her sister, Procne, was the wife of King Tereus of Thrace. Philomela's other siblings were...
- ****auda procne, the brown longtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Argentina, north through Central America and...
- Thrace is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses, in the episode of Philomela, Procne, and Tereus: Tereus, the King of Thrace, lusts after his sister-in-law,...
- Ephesus and the wife of King Zethus of Thebes. In others, Itys was the son of Procne and Tereus. Aedon was envious of Niobe, her sister-in-law, who had six sons...
- The statue of Procne and Itys (Gr****: Πρόκνη και Ίτυς) is a Gr**** marble sculpture of the fifth century BC which once adorned the Acropolis of Athens,...
- the king of Thrace, was married to Procne, daughter of the Athenian ruler. Tereus and Procne had a son Itys. Procne wanted to see her sister Philomela...
- mythological character, the son of Tereus, a king of Thrace, by his Athenian wife Procne. Itys was murdered by his own mother and served to be consumed during dinner...