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Pan Pursuing a Goatherd. By the Pan painter, Attic red-figure krater, ca. 460 B.C.; height
142 in. Pan pursues a herdsman, possibly Daphnis, son of Hermes. Pan's intentions are
clear, and his lust is wittily echoed by the herm (or, more likely, figure of Priapus) in the
rocky background. This is reverse of the vase illustrated in Chapter 10 on page 205. The
impunity of divine lust contrasts with the tragic consequences of divine anger for human
error. (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.)Pan had other loves besides Syrinx.^23 His passion for the nymph Echo also
ended tragically. She fled from his advances, and Pan spread such madness and
"panic" among a group of shepherds (a particular feat to which he was prone)
that they tore her to pieces. All that remained was her voice.