Paian (song)

A Paian ( Greek  Παιάν Nothelfer ), also Päan or Paion ( Παιών ) is a solemn chant that was sung in honor of the Greek god Apollon , especially to fight or to celebrate a victory. After a battle, however, it could also be initiated by the losers to appease the victors. It is also an epithet of Apollo. Later the paian is also sung in the healing cult of Asclepius .

literature

• Lutz Käppel : Paian. Studies on the history of a genus . Berlin - New-York 1992, ISBN 3-110-12967-1 , Google Books [1]
• Ian Rutherford : Pindar's Paeans. A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre . Oxford: OUP 2001, ISBN 0-198-14381-8 , Google Books [2]

swell

1. ^ Heinrich Krefeld (Ed.): Hellenika. Introduction to the culture of the Hellenes . New edition, 1st edition. Cornelsen, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-464-73111-1 , here: p. 70.