L’immortale dio Pan: The Pipes of Pan di Lester Del Rey

Abstract

Pan the immortal God: The Pipes of Pan by Lester del ReyThis article aims at examining the short story The Pipes of Pan byLester Del Rey (1940). The author tries to show that an usefulinterpretation for this text could be found by placing The Pipes ofPan in the context of the famous Plutarchean passage de def. or. 419beon Pan’s death: ‘Πὰν ὁ μέγας τέθνηκεν’.