Procne

• “The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine.”

  Divorce, American Style

• “I could tell of the murder of that poor son of Zeus, whom Procne, mother of an only child, slew and offered to the Muses; but thou hadst three children, wretched parent, and all of them hast thou in thy frenzy slain.”

  Heracles

• “Procne then killed her kids by Tereus and fed them to him.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “But she wove a tapestry that told the story, and got it to her sister, Procne.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “She alerts her sister Procne by weaving the tale into a tapestry — then the sisters plot against Tereus.”

  See Delphi and Die

• “What then, said Sylla, is it upon the old fabulous account of killing her son, that they deny the swallow entertainment, by that means showing their dislike to those passions which (as the story goes) made Tereus and Procne and”

  Symposiacs

• “The gods prevented him from punishing her by turning him into a hoopoe, Philome1ainto a swallow, and Procne into a nightingale.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “When Procne discovered that Tereus had raped and mutilated her sister, Philomela, she took revenge by serving him a meal that included the flesh of their child, Itys.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “[2502] And Procne is to this day flitting about, lamenting; and her sister of Athens shrills with her tongue cut out.”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

• “I will hasten down to the thicket to waken my dear Procne and as soon as they hear our voices, they will come to us hot wing.”

  The Birds

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