Darrhon
{{Short description|Paeonian god of healing}}
Darrhon or Darron ({{langx|grc|Δάῤῥων}}) was a Paeonian{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Carol J.|title=Ancient Macedonia|date=2017|publisher=Routledge|page=14}} god of healing, whose cult was adopted by the ancient Macedonians, as mentioned by Hesychius as a Macedonian Daemon and attested hapax in one inscription of Pella
{{circa|200}} – 150 BC.[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=153439&bookid=172®ion=4&subregion=11 Epigraphical Database]
{{cquote|Ἀμφίπολις Δάρρωνι εὐξαμένη ἐπηκόωι. Amphipolis Darrhoni euxamene epekooi. AmphipolisFeminine Name who prayed to benevolent Darrhon.}}
Excavations revealed a sanctuary of Darrhon in ancient Pella.Stamatopoulou and Yeroulanou, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=q08bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA88 88] It has been argued that while Darrhon (Greek:Δάῤῥων) was initially a minor deity, he was later identified and worshiped as Asclepius.[http://macedonianissues.blogspot.com/2010/09/macedonian-names-and-makedonski-pseudo_23.html Macedonian Issues: Darron]
Etymology
It has been suggested that "Darrhon" is a Macedonian-styled name of Greek participle θαρρῶν tharrhon,http://www.heinrich-tischner.de [http://www.heinrich-tischner.de/22-sp/1sprach/aegaeis/mak-a.htm#%CE%94%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%A4%CE%91 Δ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127075805/http://www.heinrich-tischner.de/22-sp/1sprach/aegaeis/mak-a.htm#%CE%94%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%A4%CE%91 |date=2010-11-27 }} meaning "giving courage, making bold". Θάρρων, Tharrhon, is an Eretrian eponym.Eretria — early 3rd century BC [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=80829&bookid=24®ion=7&subregion=25 Line 8] Alternatively, his name might be derived from the Thracian tribe of Derrones in the north part of the Strymon valley, compare Apollo Derenus in Abdera
Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre [https://books.google.com/books?id=gPjZOB1YNqAC&dq=Derrones+Darrhon&pg=PA265] by Ian Rutherford
See also
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