 Beginning with Homer's "Odyssey", ancient dramatists and poets evoked the story of Philomela and the nightingale in their works.Most notably, it was the core of the tragedy "Tereus" by Sophocles (lost, extant only in fragments), and later in a set of plays by Philocles, the nephew of the great playwright Aeschylus.In Aeschylus's "Agamemnon", the prophetess Cassandra has a visionary premonition of her own death in which she mentioned the nightingale and Itys, lamenting