Paeon (son of Poseidon)

This article is about the son of Poseidon. For other uses, see Paean (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Paeon or Paion (Ancient Greek: Παίων, gen.: Παίονος) was a son of Poseidon by Helle, who fell into the Hellespont. In some legends he was called Edonus.^[1] He was the brother of the giant Almops.^[2]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 19; Hyginus, Poeticon astronomicon 2.20; Smith, "Paeon 1.".
2. Smith, "Almops"; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Almopia

References

• Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Helle" p. 190
• Hyginus. The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
• Pseudo-Eratosthenes, "The Constellations 19", in Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: a Sourcebook Containing the Constellations of Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the Poetic Astronomy of Hyginus, translated and edited by Theony Condos, Red Wheel/Weiser, 1997. ISBN 978-1-890482-93-0.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Smith, William, A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. Online at Perseus