Pan
deity figure · 11 works · 16 mentions · 19 anchored passages
King · Mendes · boy · child · dancemaker for the gods · dear son · god · god-Pan · half-beast head · horned Pan
in the texts
Stromata
Pan, the Greek god of the wild, honored by the Lupercal shrine founded by Evander at Rome.
I pass over the Egyptian and the Italian, who dwelt at the Carmalum in Rome, whose son was Evander, the founder of the shrine of Pan in Rome called the Lupercal.
"O dear Pan, and whatever other gods are here, grant me to become beautiful within;
lo, for you thyptēs, cheese mingled with red honey, I set upon your holy altars, O horned Pan;
The Histories
Egyptian/Greek goat-form deity identified with Mendes, one of the eight elder gods; sacred goats and goatherds are venerated in his honor.
the Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods.
The Mendesians consider all goats sacred, the male even more than the female, and goatherds are held in special estimation:
In the Egyptian language Mendes is the name both for the he-goat and for Pan.
Orations
Rustic god who, according to Diogenes' jest, invented a self-gratifying practice out of unrequited love for Echo, later taught to shepherds via Hermes.
And he said in jest that this practice was the invention of Pan, when, in love with Echo, he could not win her, but wandered in the mountains night and day;
Fortune has been called by many names among men:
Protrepticus
Rustic god whose cult recognition at Athens is dated to a specific human informant, Philippides.
The Athenians, again, did not even know who Pan was, until Philippides told them.
Electra
Rustic god of shepherds credited in legend with bringing the golden lamb down from the Argive hills.
The story remains in old legends that Pan, the keeper of wild beasts, breathing sweet-voiced music on his well-joined pipes, once brought from its tender mother on Argive hills a lamb with beautiful golden fleece.
Helen
Rustic god associated with wild places, referenced in a simile describing a nymph's cry.
just as a Naiad nymph, who sends a song of woe ringing over the hills, cries out, under the rocky hollows, with screams at the rape of Pan.
Ion
Rustic god of the caves near Macrae, piping while the infant Ion was exposed nearby.
Ye haunts of Pan, and rocks hard by the grots of Macrae, where Agraulos’ daughters three trip it lightly o’er the green grass-lawns before the shrine of Pallas, to the music of the piper’s varied note, what time thou, Pan, art piping in those caves of thine, where a maiden once that had a child by Phoebus, unhappy mother!
Hymn 19 to Pan
Pan is the goat-footed, horned, music-making shepherd deity, son of Hermes, born from the daughter of Dryops and welcomed by the gods.
And in the house she bare Hermes a dear son who from his birth was marvellous to look upon, with goat's feet and two horns —a noisy, merry-laughing child.
Then luck-bringing Hermes received him and took him in his arms:
De Rerum Natura
The rustic god Pan, imagined by farmers as the piper whose music explains woodland echoes and sounds.
Of pine upon his half-beast head, god-Pan
The woodland music!
The open reeds,- lest flute should cease to pour
Ajax
A god of dance invoked by the chorus during their mistaken celebration of Ajax's recovery.
King, dancemaker for the gods, come, so that joining with us you may set on the Nysian and the Cnosian steps, your self-taught dances.
Oedipus Tyrannus
A mountain god imagined by the Chorus as a possible divine father in a mistaken hopeful song about Oedipus' birth.
Chorus: