island of Sicily, where he had been born. The protagonist of Theocritus's first Idyll , the goat herder, Daphnis , is taught to play the Syrinx (panpipes) by Pan himself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age   Sculpture of Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes; ca. 100 BCE Found in Pompeii.   Francesco Zuccarelli, Bacchanal