Procnean

English

Etymology

From 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.