This article is about the Greek goddess. For the Athenian festival, see Pandia (festival). For the Indian village, see Pandia, Odisha. For a moon of Jupiter, see Pandia (moon).
In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia/pænˈdaɪə/ or Pandeia (Ancient Greek: Πανδία, Πανδεία, 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]
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^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.'
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