has been argued that Penelope chooses to mention Aëdon's story is because she is indirectly indicating her own desire to protect her son Telemachus, himself an only child who must hold his own against numerous male rivals and now as a grown-up acts independently of her like Itylus ignored his mother's orders, against danger.

Asia Minor

According to a later tradition preserved in Antoninus Liberalis who attributes the story to Hellenistic writer

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