Editing Pandareus (section)

== Mythology ==
=== Pandareus' robbery ===
Pandareus was said to have been favored by the goddess [[Demeter]], who conferred upon him the benefit of never suffering from indigestion, however much food he should eat.<ref name=":0" /> At the request of his impious friend, [[Tantalus]], Pandareus stole a golden dog from a sacred place to [[Zeus]] on [[Crete]]; that dog had guarded Zeus during his infancy by the will of [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], Zeus' mother.<ref name="ant"/> On the other hand, Byzantine scholar [[Eustathius of Thessalonica]] writes that rather Pandareus and Tantalus attempted to steal a mechanic dog that had been crafted by [[Hephaestus]] himself, which was placed in a temple of Zeus in Crete. Zeus then sent his son [[Hermes]] to steal the dog back and then punished the two thieves.<ref>Eustathius ad Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 19.710]</ref> Pandareus carried off the dog and gave it to Tantalus to hide, but when he later asked for the dog, Tantalus insisted he had never received it. Zeus punished Pandareus by turning him into stone as he stood.<ref name="ant">Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#36 36]</ref> In other authors he fled to the island of [[Sicily]], where he perished together with his wife [[Harmothoë]].<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] ad [[Homer]], p. 1875</ref>

=== Anatolia ===
Pandareus was the father of [[Aëdon]] (wife of [[Amphion and Zethus|Zethus]]), [[Chelidon (mythology)|Chelidon]], [[Cleothera]] and [[Merope (Greek myth)|Merope]];<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 19.518; Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#11 11] as cited in [[Boios|Boeus]]' ''Ornithogonia''</ref> according to Pausanias, the last two were called [[Cameiro]] and [[Clytia]].<ref name="Pausanias" /> Harmothoe is confirmed to be the mother of Aëdon, Merope and Cleodora, but not Chelidon. After the death of their parents, [[Aphrodite]] took care of Cleodora and Merope, [[Hera]] taught them to be proper women, and [[Athena]] made them accomplished; but when Aphrodite went to see [[Zeus]] to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the [[Erinyes|furies]].<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 20.66 ff.</ref>

In another myth, Aëdon's husband [[Polytechnus]] came to him under the excuse that Aëdon wanted her sister Chelidon to visit her, when in fact he owed his wife a female slave. Pandareus, not suspecting a thing, let Polytechnus take Chelidon, but he proceeded to rape her and force her to serve as a slave for Aëdon. The two sisters soon escaped and ran back to Pandareus, who had Polytechnus tied, smeared with honey and left to the mercy of flies. Aëdon in pity kept the flies off of Polytechnus, angering Pandareus, his wife and his son. They were about to attack Aëdon, but Zeus interfered, and transformed them all into birds. Pandareus was changed into a [[sea eagle]], his wife into a kingfisher, his son into a hoopoe.<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#11 11]</ref>