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 be:
Greek mythology
Paean (god), the doctor 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 Paeon (son of Endymion), from whom the district of Paionia was believed to get its name Paeon (son of Poseidon), the son of Helle and Poseidon; in some legends he was called Edonus Paean, a word used for the Greek god Apollo Paean, a word used for the Greek healer-god Asclepius
Places
Paion, a Greek municipality in the prefecture of Achaea
Paion (Thrace), the ancient Greek city in Thrace
People
Paeon of Amathus, an early Hellenistic historian from Amathus on the island of Cyprus
Other uses
Paeon (prosody), a metrical foot with four syllables, where one of the syllables is short and the other three are long Paeon diagyios, another name for the metrical foot cretic or amphimacer, with three syllables: long, short, long