Canens (mythology)

Template:Short description Template:More footnotes In Roman mythology, Canens was the personification of song. A nymph from Latium, she was the daughter of Janus and Venilia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.

Sources

• Ovid Metamorphoses 14.320-434

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