Editing Mount Lykaion (section)

====Pan====

Mt. Lykaion was an important site of religious worship in ancient Greece. Pausanias describes a sanctuary of [[Pan (god)|Pan]] surrounded by a grove of trees. At the sanctuary were bases of statues, which by Pausanias’ time had been deprived of the statues themselves, as well as a [[hippodrome]], where the athletic games had once been held.<ref>Pausanias 8.38.5</ref> References to Lykaian Pan are especially abundant in Latin poetry, as for instance in Virgil's epic, the ''[[Aeneid]]'': “''Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei'',” “...the [[Lupercal]], named after the [[Parrhasia (Arcadia)|Parrhasian]] worship of Lykaian Pan,”<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 8.343-4</ref> and in [[Odes (Horace)|Horace's Odes]]: “''Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem / mutat Lycaeo Faunus'',” “Often swift Faunus [Pan] exchanges Lykaion for pleasant [[Lucretilis Mons|Lucretilis]].”<ref>Horace, ''Odes'' 1.17.1–2</ref>