Philomela

She and her sister, Prokne (Procne), were Athenian princesses and the daughters of Pandion.

Prokne married Tereus, the king of Thrake (Thrace); Tereus attacked (or offended) Philomela and, in order to keep his outrage a secret, he cut out Philomela’s tongue and hid her away 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 Prokne’s son, Itys, and served the cooked body of the child 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.

Philomela was also called Daulias which means “a woman from Daulis.”