Paean (disambiguation)

A 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 refer to:

Greek mythology

 * Paean (god), the physician 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, from whom the Attic clan and deme of Paeonidae or Paionidai is supposed to have derived its name
 * Paeon (son of Endymion), from whom the district of Paionia was believed to have derived its name
 * 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.
 * Paean, an epithet for the Greek god Apollo
 * Paean, an epithet for the Greek healer-god Asclepius

Places

 * Paia, Achaea, a municipal unit in Achaea, Greece
 * Paion (Thrace), the ancient Greek city located in Thrace

People

 * Paeon of Amathus, an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the island of Cyprus

Other uses

 * Paean (horse), a British-trained racehorse
 * Paeon (prosody), 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 or amphimacer, containing three syllables: long, short, long
 * "A Paean", the original name for "Lenore", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe