Iadon

This name derives from the Ancient Greek “aēdōn (ἀηδών),” which in turn derives from “aēdonis (ἀηδονίς),” meaning “nightingale.” In Greek mythology, Aëdon is the daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. According to Homer, she was the wife of Zethus and the mother of Itylus. Envious of Niobe, the wife of her husband’s brother Amphion, who had six sons and six daughters, she formed the plan of killing the eldest of Niobe’s sons, but by mistake, slew her own son Itylus. Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon’s lamentations about her child.