ABSTRACT
A king of the city of Miletus. He stole a golden dog from a shrine of Zeus in the island of Crete and lent it to Tantalus, king of Lydia, who refused to return it, denying that it was in his possession. Since, however, the dog had guarded Zeus’ temple as it had earlier guarded Amalthea at the time of his birth, he punished both Pandareos and his wife Hermothoe by putting them to death. Aphrodite and the other goddesses rescued his two younger daughters, Cleothera and Merope, and brought them up: Athena taught them domestic crafts, Artemis made them taller, Hera gave them beauty and understanding, and finally Aphrodite arranged their marriages. But while she was on Olympus consulting Zeus about this matter, the girls were carried off by storm-winds to be slaves to the Furies. Their eldest sister Aedon, who had married Zethus, also came to an unhappy end, for she accidentally killed her own son Itylus. Because of her grief, she was turned by Zeus into a nightingale, constantly singing her son’s name.
