Editing Aethon

{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}}
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The ancient Greek word '''''aithôn''''' means "burning", "blazing" or "shining." Less strictly, it can denote the colour red-brown, or "tawny."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%232363 |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |date=1940 |website=Perseus Digital Library |publisher=Clarendon Press |access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> It is an epithet sometimes applied to animals such as horses at Hom. ''Il''. 2.839; oxen at ''Od''.18.372; and an eagle at ''Il''. 15.690 (cf. [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]]' calling the eagle that tormented [[Prometheus]] an ''aethonem aquilam'' at ''Fabulae'' 31.5.).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost02/Hyginus/hyg_fabu.html |title=Hygini genealogiis, volgo fabulae |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Bibliotheca Augustana |access-date=5 July 2013 |language= la }}</ref> The eagle who tormented Prometheus, Aethon, was the child of the [[monster]]s [[Typhon (mythology)|Typhon]] and [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]].<ref>[[:de:Ethon]]</ref> In English, ''aithôn'' may be written '''Aethon''', '''Aithon''' or '''Ethon'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Harris |first1= John |last2= Todd |first2= mark | date= 2005|title= My Monster Notebook |url= http://shop.getty.edu/products/my-monster-notebook-978-1606060506|publisher= Getty Publications |isbn= 978-1-60606-050-6|access-date= 12 December 2014}}</ref> In [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]] there are a number of characters known as '''Aethon'''. Most are horses, variously belonging to:

* [[Helios]]<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 2.153</ref>
* [[Ares]]<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 8.239</ref>
* [[Hector]]<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 8.184</ref>
* [[Pallas (son of Evander)|Pallas]]<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 11.89</ref>
* [[Hades]] ([[Claudian]])

The name is twice applied to humans. In ''[[Odyssey]]'' 19.183, it is the pseudonym a disguised [[Odysseus]] assumes during his interview with [[Penelope]] upon his return to [[Homer's Ithaca|Ithaca]]. According to fr. 43a.5 of [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', [[Erysichthon of Thessaly]] was also known as Aethon due to the "burning" hunger (''aithôn limos'') he was made to endure by [[Demeter]].<ref>cf. [[Callimachus]], ''Hymn to Demeter'' 6.65 ff.</ref>

==See also==

* ''[[Chrysoritis aethon]]'', a species of butterfly

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Callimachus]], ''Hymns'' translated by Alexander William Mair (1875-1928). London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. [https://topostext.org/work/120 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Callimachus, ''Works''. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0481 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Homer]], [[Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''[[Aeneid]].'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica|The Fall of Troy]]'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Online version at theio.com]
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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