Procris
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
Athenian princess, third daughter of Erechtheus (greek_erechtheus) and Praxithea (greek_praxithea); wife of Cephalus son of Deioneus, by whom in some accounts she bore Arcesius. Authored as mortal (both parents mortal; Athenian royal). Her spouse Cephalus is not in the corpus (grep found only greek_apollod_thespiad_procris, a different Procris, and no greek_cephalus), so the Procris-Cephalus marriage is recorded here in prose rather than emitted as a spouse relation, per the rule that relation.personId must resolve. Killed accidentally by Cephalus with the unerring javelin she herself had brought him.
Parentage
- father: Erechtheus
- mother: Praxithea
Domains
- the hunt
- marriage and fidelity
Epithets
- Πρόκρις Ἐρεχθηίς — Procris the Erechtheid (daughter of Erechtheus)Ov. Met. 7.697 (Erechthea ... Procris); Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: Cecrops IIBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: PandorusBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: MetionBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: OreithyiaSister; the daughter of Erechtheus carried off by Boreas (existing figure).Apollod. 3.15.1-2 (primary)
- sibling: Creusa of AthensSister; the youngest daughter Creusa, mother of Ion (existing figure).Apollod. 3.15.1; Eur. Ion 10-11, 277-282 (primary)