Aëdon (Ancient Greek: Ἀηδών, romanized: Aēdṓn, lit. 'nightingale') was in Greek mythology, the daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. According to Homer, she...
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Zethus to kill himself. In the Odyssey, however, Zethus's wife is called Aëdon, a daughter of Pandareus in book 19, who killed her son Itylus in a fit...
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House wren (redirect from Thryothorus aedon)
The house wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a very small bird of the wren family, Troglodytidae. It occurs from Canada to southernmost South America, and is...
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for Aëdon. The two sisters soon escaped and ran back to Pandareus, who had Polytechnus tied, smeared with honey and left to the mercy of flies. Aëdon in...
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Agrias aedon, the Aedon agrias, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm. A. a. aedon (Colombia, Venezuela, possibly...
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chariot and Aëdon a tapestry, so they made a wager that whoever finished first would need to find the other a slave. With Hera's help, Aëdon was victorious...
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Pandareus, who hailed from Asia Minor, and had three daughters by him; Aëdon, Cleothera and Merope. Pausanias calls the later two Cameiro and Clytie...
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Andropolia aedon is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America from British Columbia...
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chase swallows and nightingales. A more or less identical tale is said of Aëdon ("nightingale", supplanting Procne), Chelidon ("swallow", supplanting Philomela)...
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Polyommatus aedon is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1887. It is found in central Anatolia, Kurdistan...
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