Pasithea (mythology)

For other uses, see Pasithoe.

In Greek mythology, Pasithea (Ancient Greek: Πασιθέα or Πασιθέη Pasitheê, possibly meaning 'the one who runs to all' or 'the Goddess revered by all')^[1][2] may refer to the following figures:

• Pasithea, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3][4]
• Pasithea, one of the younger Charites, the consort of Sleep (Hypnos).^[5]
• Pasithea, a naiad who was married to King Erichthonius of Athens and by him the mother of Pandion I and others. Usually, her name is given as Praxithea.^[6]

Notes

1. Hederich,Benjamin (1724) pp. 1900-1901.
2. Nork, Friedrich (1843) p.20.
3. Hesiod, Theogony 246
4. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
5. Homer, Iliad 14.268, 276; Pausanias, 9.35.4
6. Apollodorus, 3.14.6

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hederich, Benjamin (1724). M. Benjamin Hederichs, Schol. Hayn. Rect. Gründliches Lexicon Mythologicvm. Johann Friedrich Gleditschens seel. Sohn. pp. 1900–1901.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
• Nork, Friedrich (1843). Etymologisch-symbolisch-mythologisches Real-Wörterbuch zum Handgebrauche für Bibelforscher, Archäologen und bildende Künstler. Band 4.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.