# Tereus — Metamorphoses character guide

> Tereus in Metamorphoses by Ovid.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** O Tereus

**First appearance:** 0062-peasants-of-lycia-transformed-to-frogs

## Who they are

Thracian king who rapes Philomela and is turned into a hoopoe.

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