Pan
The Great God’s Modern Return
Paul Robichaud
Reaktion Books 2021
Hb, 344pp, £15.99, ISBN 9781789144765
Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return is a dedicated cultural history of the capricious god. Paul Robichaud does an excellent job of charting the development of the figure of Pan, and the various philosophical, religious and cultural ideas that have attached to him through the ages.
Pan’s well-known half-human, half-goat form is traced from its mythical origins on the rugged hill-sides of ancient Arcadia in Greece, where he was known as the pastoral god of shepherds and goat herders, right through to his present-day incarnations in popular culture.
