the sea is noisy . 47; Pind. One of the most repeated tales from people globally on how they have been getting through this isolation and combatting the loneliness has been the close relationship they have with their animals. 34), by Callisto (Schol. 689 ff (trans. 390 ff (trans. Page, Vol. "O Pan, that rulest over Arkadia (Arcadia), and art the warder of holy shrines . viii. 28. [41] Corrected for their smaller body sizes, chimpanzees were found to be stronger than humans but not anywhere near four to eight times. Why ask so slight a tale of Phoebus [Apollon]? ", Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. "Apollon, learnt the mantic art from Pan, son of Zeus and Thymbris. Chimpansee Voight, 1831 for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after his birth. Male adult wild chimps weigh between 40 and 60 kg[27][28][29] with females weighing between 27 and 50 kg. . Horned Pan laughed aloud, when he heard the firebreathing torments of Bakkhos (Bacchus), but, a luckless lover himself, heartbroken he pitied one unhappy in love, and gave him love-advice; it was a small alleviation of his own love to see another burnt with a spark from the same quiver: ‘We are companions in suffering, friend Bakkhos, and I pity your feelings. The least popular P animal is the pool frog, the least common amphibian in the United Kingdom. they have human form, and a shaggy goat's head upon it with horns. The roaring flood does not overwhelm me; if I like I can mount to the starry sky on my goatish feet!’ ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) : Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. Pan was depicted as a man with the horns, legs and tail of a goat, a thick beard, snub nose and pointed ears. Walsh) (Roman novel C2nd A.D.) : Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6. ", Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis 86 ff (trans. ", Homeric Hymn 19 to Pan 1 ff (trans. 46 ff (trans. 11 (trans. ", Statius, Thebaid 11. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature adopted Pan as the only official name of the genus in 1895,[7] though the "cave-dweller" connection was able to be included, albeit at the species level (Pan troglodytes – the common chimpanzee) for one of the two species of Pan. "[The army of the Seven Against Thebes is routed and the Thebans pursue :] Eurymedon pursues, with armour rustic and uncouth and rustic weapons in his hand and native skill to arouse panic terrors--his sire was Pan. Then all the immortals were glad in heart and Bakkheios (Bacchic) Dionysos in especial; and they called the boy Pan [i.e. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. as the god of flocks he was the source of the fine fleece which Endymion used to entice the goddess down from the sky. "[Ostensibly a description of an ancient Greek painting at Neapolis (Naples) :] Pan, the Nymphai (Nymphs) say, dances badly and goes beyond bounds in his leaping, leaping up and jumping aloft after the manner of sportive goats; and they say that they would teach him a different kind of dancing, or a more delightful character; when he, however, pays no heed to them but, his garment extended, tries to make love to them they set upon him at noon, when Pan is said to abandon the hunt and go to sleep. 6 (trans. "Humans and Chimps: Close But Not That Close", "Tiny Genetic Differences between Humans and Other Primates Pervade the Genome", "Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees", An MRI study of the relationship between human neuroanatomy and behavioral ability, "Why did humans evolve big penises but small testicles? Let be the song of Kyklops, though it is sweet. 10 : Orphic Hymn 34 to Apollo (trans. What is the latest theory of why humans lost their body hair? (Vandenhoeck). In Arcadia hunters used to scourge the statue, if they hunted in vain (Theocrit. Greek Lyric V) : Aesop, Fables 74 (from Chambry, Babrius, Fabulae Aesopeae 23 & Syntipas 12) (trans. Then, looking towards the shepherd-god, he said, ‘The judge attends.’ For while I water my sheep here by a neighbouring spring, Dionysos draws intractable Nymphai (Nymphs) to marriage by means of his tippler's river! Blumenbach, J. F. (1776). 7 (trans. Haliplanktos (trans. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. 489 ff : Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) : "And goat-herd Pan who went with him [the hero Kadmos (Cadmus)] gave Zeus Almighty cattle and sheep and rows of horned goats [during his war with Typhoeus]. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 689 ff (trans. 78 (trans. "Goatherd Pan cried out : ‘I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! 20), and the sacrifices offered to him consisted of cows, rams, lambs, milk, and honey. : Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. At length it struggles upward, and poised upon its base cunningly lifts its head without any knot, as though it sank with another root into the bottom of the lake. ad Theocr. 145.) ((lacuna)) lightly gripping the roundness of its streaming udder, drew forth a milky flood and gave it for an offering to Pan. With the lockdown putting pressure on everyone, this rings just as true for those in the Galapagos islands too. âTherefore, we have decided to bring the Galapagos closer to all of you by telling you some stories from those living out there themselves. Did your trainer teach you to pity love? For most of the time, the great god was both an amusing and amiable presence – but he loved his naps even more than he loved his nymphs; which explains why the Ancient Greeks believed it was fairly dangerous to disturb them. to C1st A.D.) : 30. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "[A Bird sings :] Oh, rustic Mousa (Muse) of such varied note, tiotiotiotiotiotinx, I [the bird] sing with you in the groves and on the mountain tops, tiotiotiotinx.