Procris

[1] Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Procris that has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cycle, but at least six different accounts of her story still exist.

Procris's sisters were Creusa, Oreithyia, Chthonia, Protogeneia, Pandora[2] and Merope[3] while her brothers were Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion,[4] and possibly Orneus,[5] Thespius,[6] Eupalamus[7] and Sicyon.

Joyfully she rose to fling herself into his arms, but hearing a rustling of foliage, Cephalus shot an arrow at what he thought would be a wild beast in the brush.

Procris flees to take up the pursuits of Diana, and is later persuaded to return to her husband, bringing him a magical spear and a hunting dog as gifts.

Cephalus kills her by accident when she stirs in the bushes nearby, upset at his beseeching of "beloved Aura" to "come into his lap and give relief to his heat".

She is described as fleeing to King Minos, who had been cursed by his wife Pasiphaë to ejaculate scorpions, serpents and centipedes that killed his mistresses from the inside.

[citation needed] Hyginus (who states that the dog and javelin are gifts from the goddess Artemis) and Antoninus Liberalis,[14] however, write that she disguised herself as a boy and seduced her husband, so that he too was guilty, and they were reconciled.

[citation needed] Unlike the other versions, Hyginus omits Cephalus' abduction by Eos; instead he rejects her when she propositions him, and she replies that she does not want him to break his marital vows unless Procris has.

[citation needed] Procris' story is included in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–62.