Tereus

The two wives were changed at their own request to nightingale and swallow, and Tereus became a hoopoe.

Philomela was changed, at her own prayer, into a nightingale that she might escape the vengeance of her brother-in-law Tereus.

The king of birds, transformed from Tereus, King of Thrace, twitters in the following style.

Tereus lived in Daulis, part of what is now called Phocis, but which at that time was inhabited by Thracians.

Tereus is changed into a crested bird, either a hoopoe or a lapwing.