Brittany Higgins raised her voice loudly — and she can’t be the only one who does

What shall I write about this week, I asked the eight-year-old.

“Greek myths!” he responded brightly.

Like millions of others, he’s consumed by the Percy Jackson demi-god books — a bunch of kids who don’t fit in turn out to be the unwanted, half-human children of the gods — and my son’s world is now all Poseidon and Zeus and Cronus.

It was a great idea, so let me tell you the story of Procne and Philomela.

They were sisters. Procne was married to King Tereus of Thrace and had not seen her sister Philomela in years. She asked her husband to go back to Athens to bring Philomela to her. The sisters’ father, King Pandion, asked Tereus to care for Philomela as if she were his own daughter.

His very own daughter.

But on the way back to…