In Greek mythology, Aëdon, daughter of Pandareus, was the wife of Zethus. The pair had one son, Itylus. Aedon accidentally killed him and was stricken with grief and guilt. In pity, the gods turned her into a nightingale, which cries with sadness every night. Alternatively, she was the queen of Thebes, who attempted to kill the son of her rival, Niobe, also her sister-in-law, and accidentally killed her own son instead and thus, the gods again changed her into a nightingale. The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... In Greek mythology, Pandareus was the son of Clymene and Merops. ... Amphion (native of two lands) and Zethus, in ancient Greek mythology, were the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope. ... In Greek mythology, Itylus, or Itylos, was the son/daughter of Aedon and King Zethus of Thebes. ... Binomial name Luscinia megarhynchos (Brehm, 1831) This article is about the bird. ... Thebes (in Demotic Greek: Θήβα — Thíva, Katharevousa: — ThÄ“bai or Thívai) is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. ... Apollo and Artemis slaying the children of Niobe by Niobid Painter (c. ...

Odyssey XIX, 518. Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek: , Odusseia) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. ...