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

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

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