Procnean

English

Etymology

Procne +‎ -an

Adjective

Procnean (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to or reminiscent of Procne.
    • 1985, Bowers, Studies in iconography, volume 10, page 93:
      As in the twin engravings by Antonio Tempesta (Plates 3 and 4), of Tereus and Philomena, and the Procnean banquet, the follow-through from rape to death was a frequent Renaissance theme.
    • 2015, Mairéad McAuley., Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius, →ISBN:
      In making his Althaea post- and propter-Procnean, Ovid extends the same rhetoric of maternal revenge and the conflictual passions and identities associated with it, [...]
    • 2016, James Harmer, Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity, →ISBN:
      [...] in order to explore the links between thought and action, Cydippean mora and Procnean revenge.
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