I will be focusing on a passage, at 1.5.4, where Pausanias makes mention of three mythological figures: they are Procne, Philomela, and Tereus (more accurately in Greek: Proknē, Philomēlā, and Tēreus). The tragic story of these three catastrophic figures is best known today from the celebrated version of Ovid, Metaphorphoses 6.401–674.