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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Itys
The son of Prokne (Procne) and Tereus who was the innocent victim of his parents’ cruel revenge upon each other.
Tereus committed an act of outrage against Prokne’s sister, Philomela, and to keep his crime a secret, he cut out Philomela’s tongue and hid her in an isolated place; Philomela was able to weave her sad story onto a piece of needlework and send it to her sister; Prokne found Philomela and the two of them killed her son, Itys and served the cooked body to her evil husband, Tereus; Tereus tried to slay the sisters but all three were transformed into birds; Tereus became a hoopoe, Philomela became a swallow and Prokne became a nightingale.
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