The ancient Greek word aithôn means "burning", "blazing" or "shining."
Hyginus' calling the eagle that tormented Prometheus an aethonem aquilam at Fabulae 31.5.).
[2] The eagle who tormented Prometheus, Aethon, was the child of the monsters Typhon and Echidna.
In Odyssey 19.183, it is the pseudonym a disguised Odysseus assumes during his interview with Penelope upon his return to Ithaca.
43a.5 of Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Erysichthon of Thessaly was also known as Aethon due to the "burning" hunger (aithôn limos) he was made to endure by Demeter.