Pan (god) back Zeus' stolen sinews. As a reward the king of the gods placed him amongst the stars as the Constellation Capricorn. The mother of Aegipan, Aix (the goat), was perhaps associated with the constellation Capra. Sybarios was an Italian Pan who was worshipped in the Greek colony of Sybaris in Italy. The Sybarite Pan was conceived when a Sybarite shepherd boy named Krathis copulated with a pretty she-goat amongst his herds. According to the Greek historian Plutarch (in "De defectu oraculorum", "The Obsolescence of Oracles"), Pan is the only Greek god (other than Asclepius) who actually dies. During the reign
The God Complex in that series, so Whithouse wrote "The Vampires of Venice" instead and "The God Complex" was pushed to the next series. The idea to have a Minotaur be the monster came from Whithouse's love for Greek mythology. Whithouse was more pleased with "The God Complex" than "School Reunion" and "The Vampires of Venice", his previous "Doctor Who" scripts, as the tone was darker which he was "more comfortable" writing. The first line of dialogue Whithouse wrote was the Doctor's translation of the Minotaur's words: "An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless