This article is about the son of Antilochus. For other uses, see
Paean (disambiguation).
In
Greek mythology, Paeon or Paion (
Ancient Greek: Παίων, gen.: Παίονος) was the son of
Antilochus, and a lord of
Messenia.[1] Antilochus was one of the
suitors of Helen, who together with his father
Nestor, the king of
Pylos, and brother
Thrasymedes, fought in the
Trojan War. According to the second-century geographer
Pausanias, Paeon's sons were among the descendants of
Neleus (the
Neleidae) expelled from Messenia, by the descendants of
Heracles,[2] as part of the legendary "Return of the Heracleidae", later associated with the supposed "
Dorian invasion". According to Pausanias, the sons of Paeon, along with other of the expelled Neleidae,
Alcmaeon and
Melanthus fled to
Athens, and it was from this Paeon that the
Attic clan and
deme of
Paeonidae or Paionidai were supposed to have derived its name.[3] The deme was apparently the same as the Paeonia, which Herodotus located as being below the Attic fortress of
Leipsydrium.[4]
Notes
^Grimal, s.v. Paeon, p. 335; Smith 1873,
s.v. Paeon 2.; Tripp, s.v. Antilochus, p. 54.
Larcher, Pierre-Henri, Larcher's notes on Herodotus: Historical and critical comments on the history of Herodotus, with a chronological table, Volume 2, Whittaker, 1844.
Leeuwen, Jan, "Homerica", in "Mnemosyne, Volume 35", E. J. Brill., 1907.
p. 53
Pausanias, Description of Greece. W. H. S. Jones (translator).
Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). Vol. 1. Books I–II:
ISBN0-674-99104-4.
Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970).
ISBN069022608X.