Paean
Paean is a song (or expression) of thanksgiving, triumph, healing or praise.
Paean, Paeeon, Paeëon, Paeon, Paian, Paieon, or Paion (from the Ancient Greek Παιάν, Παιήων, or Παιών) may be:
Greek mythology
- Paean (god), the doctor of the Greek gods
- 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
- Paeon (son of Antilochus), a lord of Messenia
- Paeon (son of Endymion), from whom the district of Paionia was believed to get its name
- Paeon (son of Poseidon), the son of Helle and Poseidon; in some legends he was called Edonus
- Paean, a word used for the Greek god Apollo
- Paean, a word used for the Greek healer-god Asclepius
Places
- Paion, a Greek municipality in the prefecture of Achaea
- Paion (Thrace), the ancient Greek city in Thrace
People
- Paeon of Amathus, an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the island of Cyprus
Other uses
- Paeon (prosody), a metrical foot with four syllables, where one of the syllables is short and the other three are long
- Paeon diagyios, another name for the metrical foot cretic or amphimacer, with three syllables: long, short, long
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