Plutarch recounts a story he attributes to Paeon concerning Theseus and Ariadne. Later, Paeon becomes an epithet of Asclepius, the healer-god. Homer illustrated Paeon the god, and the song both of apotropaic thanksgiving or triumph. He was the son of Paeon and brother of Laophoon. Autareius had a son Pannonius or Paeon and these had sons Scordiscus and Triballus. He was the brother of Paeon (called "Edonus" in some accounts). In Homer, Paeon was the Greek physician of the gods. "Paeon" was also the name of a divine physician and an epithet ("byname") of Apollo.