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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]
Notes
^
"Homer, Iliad,Book 5, line 899" . www.perseus.tufts.edu . Tufts University.
^ Homer, Iliad
11.339 &
368
^
Quintus Smyrnaeus ,
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, Fritz (2008).
Apollo . Taylor and Francis. pp. 66–67.
^
Eustathius of Thessalonica on Homer, 1494;
Virgil ,
Aeneid 7.769
References
Homer ,
The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Quintus Smyrnaeus ,
The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.
Online version at theio.com
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy . Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .