Harvard University Press Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times: 30 (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)

A study of one of the most distinctive and unusually varied motifs from classical mythology. The author first describes several basic conceptions of the nature of pan the goat-god and examines the exploitation of these images from classical through eighteenth-century literature. The main part of her study is a fuller analysis of literary manifestations of the god in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the orphic pan of the romantics, the plutarchan pan of the victorians, appearances of the benevolent and the sinister goat-god, and d. H. Lawrence’s use of the motif.