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In [[Greek mythology]], the goddess '''Pandia''' {{IPAc-en|p|æ|n|ˈ|d|aɪ|ə}} or '''Pandeia''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Πανδία, Πανδεία}}, meaning "all brightness")<ref>Fairbanks, [https://archive.org/stream/MythologyOfGreeceAndRomespecialReferenceToItsInfluenceOnLiterature/bulgaria_fairbanks-GRE1907#page/n175/mode/2up p. 162]. Regarding the meaning of "Pandia", Kerenyi, p. 197, says: '"the entirely shining" or the "entirely bright"&mdash; 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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ''Hymn to Selene'' (32) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D32 15&ndash;16]; Allen, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0029%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Apoem%3D32 [15<nowiki>]</nowiki> "ΠανδείηΝ"], says that Pandia was "elsewhere unknown as a daughter of Selene", but see [[Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html Preface], [[Philodemus]], ''De pietate'' P.Herc. 243 Fragment 6 (Obbink, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=D4tDMNaqKfIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA353 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) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D32 15&ndash;16].</ref> An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of [[Antiochus (mythology)|Antiochus]], the eponymous hero of [[Antiochis]], one of the ten Athenian tribes ([[phyle|''phylai'']]).<ref>West, p. 19, which describes Pandia as an "obscure figure"; Tsagalis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8TtbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 p. 53].</ref>
In [[Greek mythology]], the goddess '''Pandia''' {{IPAc-en|p|æ|n|ˈ|d|aɪ|ə}} or '''Pandeia''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Πανδία, Πανδεία}}, meaning "all brightness")<ref>Fairbanks, [https://archive.org/stream/MythologyOfGreeceAndRomespecialReferenceToItsInfluenceOnLiterature/bulgaria_fairbanks-GRE1907#page/n175/mode/2up p. 162]. Regarding the meaning of "Pandia", Kerenyi, p. 197, says: '"the entirely shining" or the "entirely bright"&mdash; 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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ''Hymn to Selene'' (32) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D32 15&ndash;16]; Allen, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0029%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Apoem%3D32 [15<nowiki>]</nowiki> "ΠανδείηΝ"], says that Pandia was "elsewhere unknown as a daughter of Selene", but see [[Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html Preface], [[Philodemus]], ''De pietate'' P.Herc. 243 Fragment 6 (Obbink, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=D4tDMNaqKfIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA353 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) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D32 15&ndash;16].</ref> An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of [[Antiochus (mythology)|Antiochus]], the eponymous hero of [[Antiochis]], one of the ten Athenian tribes ([[phyle|''phylai'']]).<ref>West, p. 19, which describes Pandia as an "obscure figure"; Tsagalis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8TtbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 p. 53].</ref>


Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene,<ref>Willetts, p. 178; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up p. 732]; Roscher, [https://archive.org/stream/berseleneundver00poligoog#page/n125/mode/2up 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>Hall. Alexander E. W. "Dating the Homeric Hymn to Selene: Evidence and Implications". ''Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies'' 53 (2013): 15–30. [https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/viewFile/14191/3819] </ref> Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon,<ref>Cox, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qdzikAFo7AYC&pg=PA138 p. 138]; Casford [https://books.google.com/books?id=YQVdvH_z74oC&pg=PA174 p. 174].</ref> and an Athenian festival called the [[Pandia (festival)|Pandia]] (probably held for [[Zeus]]<ref>Parker 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F_ATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA477 p. 447].</ref>) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.<ref>Robertson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AMTNIZ_LQjoC&pg=PA75 p. 75 note 109]; Willets, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wz0qAAAAYAAJ&q=Pandia+Selene&dq=Pandia+Selene&hl=en&sa=X&ei=amu1Ua6yDsGmPazngLAP&redir_esc=y 178&ndash;179]; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up. 732]; Harpers, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D8%3Aentry%3Dselene-harpers "Selene"]; Smith, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=BDFA02D9C2623BF90A2B1EC34D743408?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dpandia-cn "Pandia"]; ''Lexica Segueriana'' s.v. Πάνδια ([[August Immanuel Bekker|Bekker]], [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_y5sQAAAAIAAJ p. 292]); [[Photius]], ''Lexicon'' s.v. Πάνδια.</ref>
Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene,<ref>Willetts, p. 178; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up p. 732]; Roscher, [https://archive.org/stream/berseleneundver00poligoog#page/n125/mode/2up 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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qdzikAFo7AYC&pg=PA138 p. 138]; Casford [https://books.google.com/books?id=YQVdvH_z74oC&pg=PA174 p. 174].</ref> and an Athenian festival called the [[Pandia (festival)|Pandia]] (probably held for [[Zeus]]<ref>Parker 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F_ATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA477 p. 447].</ref>) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.<ref>Robertson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AMTNIZ_LQjoC&pg=PA75 p. 75 note 109]; Willets, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wz0qAAAAYAAJ&q=Pandia+Selene&dq=Pandia+Selene&hl=en&sa=X&ei=amu1Ua6yDsGmPazngLAP&redir_esc=y 178&ndash;179]; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up. 732]; Harpers, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D8%3Aentry%3Dselene-harpers "Selene"]; Smith, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=BDFA02D9C2623BF90A2B1EC34D743408?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dpandia-cn "Pandia"]; ''Lexica Segueriana'' s.v. Πάνδια ([[August Immanuel Bekker|Bekker]], [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_y5sQAAAAIAAJ p. 292]); [[Photius]], ''Lexicon'' s.v. Πάνδια.</ref>


==Notes==
==Notes==

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In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia /pænˈdə/ or Pandeia (Template:Lang-grc-gre, meaning "all brightness")[1] was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon.[2] 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."[3] An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of Antiochus, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes (phylai).[4]

Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene,[5] but by at least the time of the late Homeric Hymn, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene.[6] Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon,[7] and an Athenian festival called the Pandia (probably held for Zeus[8]) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ 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.'
  2. ^ 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).
  3. ^ Hymn to Selene (32) 15–16.
  4. ^ West, p. 19, which describes Pandia as an "obscure figure"; Tsagalis, p. 53.
  5. ^ Willetts, p. 178; Cook, p. 732; Roscher, p. 100; Scholiast on Demosthenes, 21.39a.
  6. ^ For evidence on the dating of the Hymn to Selene, see Hall 2013.
  7. ^ Cox, p. 138; Casford p. 174.
  8. ^ Parker 2005, p. 447.
  9. ^ 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.

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