Tereus

About the show

In the reconstructed tragedy, Tereus rapes and mutilates Philomela, his wife Procne's sister. Philomela reveals the crime through a woven message; Procne takes revenge by killing their son Itys and serving him to Tereus. The sisters and Tereus are transformed into birds. The surviving play is lost, and this account is reconstructed from an ancient hypothesis and fragments.