The fables of Atreus, Thiestes, Tereus and progne signifieth the wicked and abhominable facts wrought and attempted by mortall men.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
This is the feast that I have bid her to, And this the banquet she shall surfeit on; For worse than Philomel you us'd my daughter, And worse than progne I will be reveng'd.
"Titus-Andronicus"
Shakespeare, William
We want that monefull sounde, That pratling progne makes On fieldes of Thracian ground, Or streames of Thracian lakes: To empt her brest of paine For Itys by her slaine.
"A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier"
Philippe de Mornay Robert Garnier