Aëtos
According to the myth, Aëtos was a beautiful boy born of the earth.While Zeus was young and hiding in Crete from his father Cronus who had devoured all of Zeus's siblings, Aëtos became friends with the god and was the first one to swear fealty to him as new king.Thus the eagle became the sacred bird of Zeus, and a symbol of power and kingship.[2][3] Aëtos was also the eagle Zeus sent, daily at dawn, to claw-out and eat the Titan, Prometheus's, liver, only for his liver to grow-back nightly and for this sentence to begin-again the next morning.Heracles came across Prometheus on his journey, needing information; Heracles shot the eagle eating at Prometheus's liver and set him free and, in return, Prometheus helped Heracles with knowledge that his brother, Atlas, the father of the Hesperides, would know where their garden with the Golden apples was.
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