Pan

Character · slug: pan

Also: son of Zeus and Hybris, or Marsyas in related contest traditions

Stories (10)

Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
Pan and Syrinx (Ovid-labeled)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek Arcadian aetion for the panpipes (*syrinx*)
Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
Daphnis (Theocritus)
Local and lesser — Sicilian bucolic / herdsman hero · Theocritean (*Idyll* 1); Stesichorean and Sicilian precedent notices
Apollo vs Pan: Musical Contest (Midas Judge)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / musical contest · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Tmolus contest — separate from the thin ass-ears summary in 003 and from Apollo–Marsyas (02/016)
Black Demeter of Phigalia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Arcadian Demeter aetiology / cult image · Pausanian — cave of Phigalia; horse-headed Black Demeter; wrath and famine
Sagittarius: Crotus or Chiron the Archer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / centaur-archer · Catasterismic handbook — Crotus (Musaean) or Chiron as Sagittarius
Capricorn: Aegipan / Pan in the Typhonomachy (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Typhoeus aftermath · Catasterismic handbook — goat-fish Aegipan (Pan) as Capricorn
Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Pan

Stories (10)

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