person
Aedon
also: ἀηδών, the nightingale
Daughter of Pandareus and wife of Zethus, who accidentally killed her own son Itylus and was transformed into the nightingale, endlessly lamenting him; unnamed in the text itself, identified here by the standard mythological name.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §19.503 the daughter of Pandareus, the green nightingale
In Greek myth, Aedon killed her own son Itylus by mistake and was transformed into the nightingale, whose song is his mother's endless lament; Penelope compares her own divided, grief-stricken heart to it.