Pan

Also known as: God of the flocks · Role: god · First appears: Fable 15

Life events

Syrinx rejects Pan’s suit and flees from him.(Fable15)
- With: Syrinx
- “the Nymph, slighting his suit, fled through pathless spots”
Pan mistakes reeds for Syrinx, then creates a seven-piped instrument bearing her name.(Fable15 · 📍 Ladon)
- With: Syrinx
- “Pan, when he was thinking that Syrinx was now caught by him, had seized hold of some reeds of the marsh, instead of the body of the Nymph; and {how}, while he was sighing there, the winds moving amid the reeds had made a murmuring noise”
Pan challenges Apollo to a musical contest judged by Tmolus.(Fable95 · 📍 Tmolus)
- With: Apollo Tmolus
- “Pan is so elated with the praises of some Nymphs who hear the music of his pipe, that he presumes to challenge Apollo to play with him.”
Tmolus declares Apollo’s music superior, pleasing everyone except Midas.(Fable95 · 📍 Tmolus)
- With: Tmolus Apollo Midas
- “charmed by the sweetness of which, Tmolus bids Pan to hold his reeds in submission to the lyre; and the judgment and decision of the sacred mountain pleases them all. Yet it is blamed, and is called unjust by the voice of Midas alone.”

courtship with Syrinx “Pan, falling in love with the Nymph Syrinx, she flies from him; on which he pursues her.”
with Mercury (Mercury repeats Pan's words.) “Pan spies her as she is returning from the hill of Lycæus, and having his head crowned with sharp pine leaves, he utters such words as these;” it remained {for Mercury} to repeat the words”
admired: Syrinx (Pan pursues Syrinx after falling in love with her.) “Pan, falling in love with the Nymph Syrinx, she flies from him;”

rivals with Apollo “While Pan is there boasting of his strains to the charming Nymphs, and is warbling a little tune upon the reeds joined with wax, daring to despise the playing of Apollo in comparison with his own, he comes to the unequal contest under the arbitration of Tmolus.”
with Tmolus (Tmolus serves as umpire in Pan's contest.) “While Pan is there boasting of his strains to the charming Nymphs, and is warbling a little tune upon the reeds joined with wax, daring to despise the playing of Apollo in comparison with his own, he comes to the unequal contest under the arbitration of Tmolus.”
with Midas (Midas prefers Pan in the musical contest.) “Pan is so elated with the praises of some Nymphs who hear the music of his pipe, that he presumes to challenge Apollo to play with him. The mountain God, Tmolus, who is chosen umpire of the contest, decides in favour of Apollo, and the whole company approve of his judgment except Midas, who, for his stupidity in preferring Pan, receives a pair of asses’ ears.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.