Paean

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