Paeon (myth)
In Greek mythology, Paean (Ancient Greek: Παιάν), Paeëon or Paieon (Ancient Greek: Παιήων), or Paeon or Paion (Ancient Greek: Παιών) may refer to the following characters:
- Paean (god), the physician of the Greek gods.[1]
- Paeon (father of Agastrophus), the father of Agastrophus in Homer's Iliad, and the husband of Cleomede and father of Laophoon in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica.[2][3]
- Paeon (son of Antilochus), a lord of Messenia, from whom the Attic clan and deme of Paeonidae or Paionidai is supposed to have derived its name.[4]
- Paeon (son of Endymion), from whom the district of Paionia was believed to have derived its name.[5]
- Paeon (son of Poseidon), the son of Helle and Poseidon; in some legends he was called Edonus.[6]
- Paeon, son of Ares and father of Biston.[7]
- Paean, an epithet for the Greek god Apollo.[8]
- Paean, an epithet for the Greek healer-god Asclepius.[9]
References
- ^ "Homer, Iliad,Book 5, line 899". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Tufts University.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.339, 11.368.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica p. 112, 6.549–555; Parada, "Paeon 1." p. 135; Connor, "Paeon" p. 1096.
- ^ Pausanias, 2.18.7–9.
- ^ Pausanias, 5.1; Smith "Paeon" 3..
- ^ Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 19; Hyginus, Poeticon astronomicon, 2.20; Smith, "Paeon 1.".
- ^ Etymologicum Magnum, 197. 59 s. v. Bistoniē
- ^ Graf 2009, pp. 66–67.
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica, on Homer, §1494; Virgil. Aeneid, vii. 769.
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