Itys
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In Greek mythology, Itys () is a minor mythological Thracian character, the son of Tereus, a king of Thrace, by his Athenian wife Procne. Itys was murdered by his own mother and aunt and served to be consumed during dinner by his father, as part of a revenge plan against Tereus for assaulting and raping the maiden Philomela, Procne's sister.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Itys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.