Paeon (myth) explained

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

1. Web site: Homer, Iliad, Book 5, line 899. www.perseus.tufts.edu. Tufts University.
2. Homer, Iliad 11.339 &368
3. [Quintus Smyrnaeus]
4. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
5. Pausanias, 5.1; Smith "Paeon" 3
6. [Catasterismi|Pseudo-Eratosthenes]
7. Etymologicum Magnum 197.59 s.v. Bistoniē
8. Book: Graf, Fritz. 2008. Apollo. Taylor and Francis. 66–67.
9. [Eustathius of Thessalonica]

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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . 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. . 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.