Aëdon
Aedon ( Greek Ἀηδών , nightingale ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Pandareos and Harmothoe and the wife of the king of Thebes , Zethos .
Her children were Itylos and Nëis , her sister-in-law Niobe , the wife of Amphion , a son of Zeus and Antiope - and she envied her numerous offspring. So she decided to kill her eldest son, Sipylos , in his sleep. But since she mistook the bed and her own son Itylos died because of it, she begged the gods desperately to take her human form. Zeus then turned her into a nightingale .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aëdon . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 83-85 ( digitized version ).
- Eduard Thraemer : Aëdon 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 467-474.