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ˈtɪər i əs, ˈtɪər yustereus
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Tereus
In Greek mythology, Tereus (; Ancient Greek: Τηρεύς) was a Thracian king, the son of Ares and the naiad Bistonis. He was the brother of Dryas. Tereus was the husband of the Athenian princess Procne and the father of Itys.
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Tereus
In Greek mythology, Tereus was a Thracian king, the son of Ares and husband of Procne. Procne and Tereus had a son, Itys. Tereus desired his wife's sister, Philomela. He forced himself upon her, then cut her tongue out and held her captive so she could never tell anyone. He told his wife that her sister had died. Philomela wove letters in a tapestry depicting Tereus's crime and sent it secretly to Procne. In revenge, Procne killed her and Tereus' son Itys and served his flesh in a meal to his father Tereus. When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Tereus became a hoopoe; Philomela became the nightingale whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of innocence; Procne became the swallow. The names "Procne" and "Philomela" are sometimes used in literature to refer to the nightingale, though only the latter is mythologically correct. Tereus was also a common given name among Thracians. The Attic playwrights Sophocles and Philocles both wrote plays entitled Tereus on the subject of the story of Tereus. Shakespeare refers to Tereus in Titus Andronicus, after Chiron and Demetrius have raped Lavinia and cut out her tongue and also both her hands.
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Tereus
. See Philomela.
Mythology
Tereus
(Ter′eus) was a son of Mars. He married Procne, daughter of the king of Athens, but became enamored of her sister Philomela, who, however, resented his attentions, which so enraged him that he cut out her tongue. When Procne heard of her husband’s unfaithfulness she took a terrible revenge. Procne was turned into a swallow, Philomela into a nightingale, Itys into a pheasant, and Tereus into a hoopoe, a kind of vulture, some say an owl.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Tereus in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Tereus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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