title: Procris (daughter of Thespius)
text: # Procris (daughter of Thespius)
  
  In Greek mythology, Procris (/ˈproʊkrɪs/; Ancient Greek: Πρόκρις, gen.: Πρόκριδος) was a Thespian princess as the eldest of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus (or by one of his many wives). She bore twin sons, Antileon and Hippeus, to the hero Heracles.
  
  ## Mythology
  
  When the Cithaeronian lion was harassing the king of Thespius, the latter asked Herakles to kill the lion. The son of Zeus hunted it for fifty days and finally slayed the beast. The Thespian king entertained him as a guest in a brilliant fashion during that span of time, making Heracles drunk and slept unwittingly with each of his fifty daughters, including Procris. The hero having thought that his bed-fellow was always the same. Thespius intended this to happen because he strongly desired that all his daughters should have children by Hercules. In another version of the myth, the latter had an intercourse with Procris and her siblings for one week, seven laid with Heracles each night.
  
  In some accounts, Heracles bedded in a single night with Procris and her sisters except for one who refused to have a connection with him. The hero thinking that he had been insulted, condemned her to remain a virgin all her life, serving him as his priest.
  
  