希臘神話中關於天神 伊吉潘的資料越多越好!
古代希臘有關潘神的神話比較早的描述應該是品達的皮同頌詩(Pythian Ode iii. 78),他也在諾努斯(Nonnus)的《狄奧尼西卡》Dionysiaca 14.92)中出現,不過,最主要的來源應該還是旅行家波桑尼阿斯(Pausanias)的《希臘誌》(Description of Greece 8.12.5)
到了羅馬時期,普魯塔克的《論道德》(Moralia 419 A-E)和奧維德(Ovid)的《變形記》(Metamorphoses 1.710)則是我們了解潘的重要來源。
經過漫長的中世紀,到了近代,許多有有關潘神的作品也湧現出來:
如勃朗寧夫人的《潘神之死》
Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas,
Can ye listen in your silence?
Can your mystic voices tell us
Where ye hide? In floating islands,
With a wind that evermore
Keeps you out of sight of shore?
Pan, Pan is dead.
(Elizabeth Barret Browning, 1806-61, The Dead Pan).
王爾德的《潘》
O goat-foot God of Arcady !
This modern world is grey and old,
And what remains to us of thee ?
…
Then blow some trumpet loud and free,
And give thine oaten pipe away,
Ah, leave the hills of Arcady !
This modern world hath need of thee !
(Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, "Pan").
隨著古典神話再次復蘇,潘神也在新的時代復活了。。。