Canens (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Canens was the personification of song. A nymph from Latium, she was the daughter of Janus and Venilia.[1]

Because Canens' husband Picus scorned the love of the witch Circe, she turned him into a woodpecker. Canens searched for her husband for six days and then threw herself into the Tiber river. She sang one final song and then died. They had one son, Faunus.

## References

1. ↑ Ovid. "Metamorphoses Book XIV (A. S. Kline's Version)". University of Virginia. http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph14.htm.

## Sources

* Ovid Metamorphoses 14.320-434

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