Hermes fathered Pan, the goat-footed god of shepherds and wild places, by the nymph Dryope on the slopes of Arcadia. The newborn's horns and hooves so frightened his mother that she fled, but Hermes wrapped the child in a hare skin and carried him to Olympus, where the gods delighted in him.
⚠ Homeric Hymn 19 names Dryope as Pan's mother; Apollodorus gives Penelope (daughter of Dryops, not Odysseus's wife); Herodotus 2.145 names Penelope daughter of Odysseus.
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