Paean facts for kids

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

See also

In Spanish: Peán para niños