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paean
A paean () is a song or lyric poem expressing triumph or thanksgiving. In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice ( monody). It comes from the Greek παιάν (also πα ...
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 refer to:
Greek mythology
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Paean (god)
In Greek mythology, Paean (Ancient Greek: Παιάν), Paeëon or Paieon (Παιήων), or Paeon or Paion (Παιών) was the physician of the gods..
Mycenaean Greece
The name ''Paean'' is believed to be first attested in Mycenaean Greek as an ...
, the physician of the Greek gods
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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''
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Paeon (son of Antilochus)
In Greek mythology, Paeon or Paion (Ancient Greek: Παίων, gen.: Παίονος) was the son of Antilochus, and a lord of Messenia. Antilochus was one of the suitors of Helen, who together with his father Nestor (mythology), Nestor, the king of ...
, a lord of Messenia, from whom the Attic clan and deme of Paeonidae or Paionidai is supposed to have derived its name
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Paeon (son of Endymion)
Paeon or Paion (Ancient Greek: Παίων, gen.: Παίονος), in Greek mythology, was an Elean prince as son of King Endymion, and brother of Epeius, Aetolus, Eurycyda and possibly Naxos. From him the district of Paeonia, on the Axius river ...
, from whom the district of Paionia was believed to have derived its name
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Paeon (son of Poseidon), the son of Helle and Poseidon; in some legends he was called Edonus.
* Paeon, son of
Ares and father of
Biston
In Greek mythology, Biston (Ancient Greek: Βίστων or Βιστών) was the son of Ares and Callirrhoe, daughter of river-god Nestus. His two brothers were Odomas and Edonus (eponyms of two Thracian tribes, the Odomanti and the Edoni). Al ...
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* Paean, an epithet for the Greek god
Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label= Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label ...
* Paean, an epithet for the Greek healer-god
Asclepius
Asclepius (; grc-gre, Ἀσκληπιός ''Asklēpiós'' ; la, Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius represe ...
Places
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Paion, a municipal unit in Achaea, Greece
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Paion (Thrace), the ancient Greek city located in Thrace
People
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Paeon of Amathus Paeon of Amathus was an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the Island of Cyprus, mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and the lexicographer Hesychius of Alexandria.
Theseus and Ariadne
Plutarch recounts a story he attributes to Paeon con ...
, an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the island of Cyprus
Other uses
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Paean (horse)
Paean (foaled 4 April 1983 – ca. 1989) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist over long distances he was ideally suited by soft ground on which he won the 1987 Ascot Gold Cup by a modern record margin of fifteen len ...
, a British-trained racehorse
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Paeon (prosody)
In prosody a paeon (or paean) is a metrical foot used in both poetry and prose. It consists of four syllables, with one of the syllables being long and the other three short. Paeons were often used in the traditional Greek hymn to Apollo called pa ...
, a metrical foot containing four syllables, where one of the syllables is long and the other three are short
* Paeon diagyios, another name for the metrical foot
cretic
A cretic (; also Cretic, amphimacer and sometimes paeon diagyios)Squire, pp. 142, 384. is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long ( ). In Greek poetry, the cretic was usually a form of paeonic or aeolic verse. ...
or amphimacer, containing three syllables: long, short, long
* "A Paean", the original name for "
Lenore", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
See also
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Paeon (myth)
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