What is Paean?
{{wiktionary|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: {{TOC right}} ==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 {{disambig}}