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Polytechnus
In Greek mythology, Polytechnus ( ) is a carpenter from Colophon, a city on the western coast of Asia Minor. He is the husband of Aëdon and brother-in-law of Chelidon. Polytechnus serves as the doublet of Tereus in an Anatolian variant of the story of Philomela and Procne, the Athenian princesses who cut down a child in order to take revenge against his father for his crime of rape. Unlike the sisters, Polytechnus is not transformed into the same bird as his counterpart Tereus did, the hoopoe.
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In Greek mythology, Polytechnus ( ) is a carpenter from Colophon, a city on the western coast of Asia Minor. He is the husband of Aëdon and brother-in-law of Chelidon. Polytechnus serves as the doublet of Tereus in an Anatolian variant of the story of Philomela and Procne, the Athenian princesses who cut down a child in order to take revenge against his father for his crime of rape. Unlike the sisters, Polytechnus is not transformed into the same bird as his counterpart Tereus did, the hoopoe.
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