Procne

(Πρόκνη), a daughter of king Pandion of Athens, was the wife of Tereus, and was metamorphorsed into a swallow. (Apollod. 3.14.8; Thuc. 2.29.) [L.S]

• , Πρόκνη, a daughter of Pandion, turned into a swallow, O.—A swallow, V., O.

(Πρόκνη). A daughter of the Athenian king Pandion and Zeuxippé, sister of Philomela. She was given in marriage by her father to the Thracian prince Tereus, in Daulis near Parnassus, in return for assistance given him in war. Tereus became by her the father of Itys. Pretending that his wife Procné was dead, Tereus brought her sister Philomela from Athens, and ravished her on the way. He then cut out her tongue that she might be unable to inform against him, and concealed her in a grove on Parnassus; but the unfortunate girl contrived to inform her sister of what had happened by a robe, into which she ingeniously wove the story of her fate. Taking the opportunity of a feast of Dionysus in Parnassus, Procné went in quest of her sister, and agreed with her on a bloody revenge. They slew the boy Itys, and served him up to his father to eat. When Tereus learned the outrage, and was on the point of slaying the sisters, the gods changed him into a hoopoe or hawk, Procné into a nightingale, and Philomela into a swallow, or (according to another version) Procné into a swallow, and Philomela into a nightingale. See Aëdon.

• wife of Tereus: Paus. 1.5.4, Paus. 1.41.8
• daughter of Pandion by Zeuxippe, wife of Tereus: Apollod. 3.14.7
• brings image of Athena from Athens to Daulis: Paus. 10.4.9
• kills her son Itys, and serves him up to Tereus: Apollod. 3.14.8
• pursued by Tereus and turned into a nightingale: Apollod. 3.14.8
• Procne and Philomela transformed into swallow and nightingale: Paus. 1.41.9
• statue of Procne and Itys: Paus. 1.24.3