Pandia

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Greek myth (personified) In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia Template:IPAc-en or Pandeia (Template:Langx, meaning "all brightness")<ref>Fairbanks, p. 162. Regarding the meaning of "Pandia", Kerenyi, p. 197, says: '"the entirely shining" or the "entirely bright"— doubtless the brightness of nights of full moon.'</ref> was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon.<ref>Hard, p. 46; Hymn to Selene (32) 15–16; Allen, [15] "ΠανδείηΝ", says that Pandia was "elsewhere unknown as a daughter of Selene", but see Hyginus, Fabulae Preface, Philodemus, De pietate P.Herc. 243 Fragment 6 (Obbink, p. 353).</ref> From the Homeric Hymn to Selene, we have: "Once the Son of Cronos [Zeus] was joined with her [Selene] in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods."<ref>Hymn to Selene (32) 15–16.</ref> An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of Antiochus, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes (phylai).<ref>West, p. 19, which describes Pandia as an "obscure figure"; Tsagalis, p. 53.</ref>

Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene,<ref>Willetts, p. 178; Cook, p. 732; Roscher, p. 100; Scholiast on Demosthenes, 21.39a.</ref> but by at least the time of the late Homeric Hymn, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene.<ref>For evidence on the dating of the Hymn to Selene, see Hall 2013.</ref> Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon,<ref>Cox, pp. 138, 140; Casford, p. 174.</ref> and an Athenian festival called the Pandia (probably held for Zeus<ref>Parker 2005, pp. 477–478.</ref>) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.<ref>Robertson, p. 75 note 109; Willets, pp. 178–179; Cook, 732; Harpers, "Selene"; Smith, "Pandia"; Lexica Segueriana s.v. Πάνδια (Bekker, p. 292); Photius, Lexicon s.v. Πάνδια.</ref>

References

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• Bekker, Immanuel, Anecdota Graeca: Lexica Segueriana, Apud G.C. Nauckium, 1814.
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• Cook, Arthur Bernard, Zeus: Zeus, God of the Bright Sky, Volume 1 of Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, Biblo and Tannen, 1914.
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• Fairbanks, Arthur, The Mythology of Greece and Rome. D. Appleton–Century Company, New York, 1907.
• Hall, Alexander E. W., "Dating the Homeric Hymn to Selene: Evidence and Implications", Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53 (2013): 15–30. PDF.
• Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, Template:ISBN. Google Books.
• Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
• Homeric Hymn to Selene (32), in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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• Müller, Karl Otfried, History of the literature of ancient Greece, Volume 1, Baldwin and Cradock, 1840.
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External links

• Theoi Project - Pandia