Comparative mythology corpus

Mistaken Killing Of One’s Own Child

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10504-10595 high A Homeric allusion is summarized: Philomela laments Itylus; the explanation connects this with a tradition in which Ædon, daughter of Pandarus and wife of Zethus, kills her son Itylus by mistake while intending to kill a nephew. record