- Aethon
In Greek and
Roman mythology there are several characters known as Aethon:* According to
Ovid (II, 153), one ofHelios ' horses.
* According toVirgil (XI, 89), Pallas' horse.
* The personification of famine,Demeter placed him inErysichthon 's gut, making Erysichthon permanently famished. His Roman equivalent wasFames , a female deity.
* According to Homer (XIX, 180), the pseudonym Odysseus assumed during his interview with Penelope upon his return to Ithaca.
* Hyginus refers to the eagle that repeatedly atePrometheus ' innards as "aethonem aquilam". [Hyginus, "Fabulae" [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost02/Hyginus/hyg_fabu.html#c31 31.5] .] The author could be applying the name Aethon to the eagle, ["Thesaurus Linguae Latinae " s.v. Aethon: 3 aquila: HYG. fab. 31 p. 65, 13] or simply using a transliteration of the Greek adjective "Polytonic|αἴθων", which may mean "red-brown" or "tawny". [cite book |author=P. G. W. Glare (ed.) |title=Oxford Latin Dictionary |origyear=1982 |edition=reprinted with corrections |year=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-864224-5 |pages=p. 75, s.v. "aethōn"1 ]References
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