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Translation for 'Aëdon' from English to Polish

Aëdon

Aedon {f}mitol.

• Aedon {f} = Aëdon

• In some texts, Itys is called Itylus instead, another mythological bird who was killed by his mother Aëdon, who then transformed into a nightingale.
• Chelidon was the daughter of Pandareus and his wife, and thus sister to Aëdon, Cleodora (or Cleothera), Merope (according to Pausanias, the last two were called Cameiro and Clytia) and an unnamed brother.
• In Greek mythology, Aëdon was changed into a nightingale after killing her own son while attempting to murder one of the sons of her sister Niobe.
• The brown-throated wren ("Troglodytes aedon brunneicollis") is a mostly Mexican bird in the wren family, often considered a subspecies of the house wren.
• The genus "Troglodytes" was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1809. The type species was subsequently designated as the house wren ("Troglodytes aedon").

• Aedon was envious of Niobe, her sister-in-law, who had six sons and six daughters. Aedon planned to kill the eldest of Niobe's sons, but by mistake killed her own son Itylus. Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose songs are Aedon's lamentations about her child.
• "Agrias aedon", the Aedon agrias, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
• Bob Trow is working on a bird house for a wren. King Friday has a new wooden bird on a stick called Troglodytes aedon.