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Pandia

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• Cox, George W. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations Part, Vol. II, London, C. Krgan Paul & Co., 1 Pateroster Square, 1878. Internet Archive

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Ancient

Hymn to Selene (32)

15–16

Once the Son of Cronos was joined with her in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods.

Hyginus

Fabulae Preface

From Jove and Luna, Pandia.

Lexica Segueriana

s.v. Πάνδια (Bekker, p. 292)

A festival at Athens. Either from Pandia, the daughter of Selene [or "Pandia Selene"], or from Pandion, whence also the eponymous tribe. [Translation: User Davidiad]

Philodemus

De pietate P.Herc. 243 Fragment 6 (Obbink, p. 353)

As for Musaeus, Orpheus says that he was her (Selene's) son, but Musaeus says of himself that he was the son of Pandia, daughter of Zeus and Selene, and 'Antiophemos'. Ion says he was "fallen from the moon".

Photius

Lexicon s.v. Πάνδια

Schol. Euripides Rhesus

916 (p. 116)

Άντιόφημον, ὲς οὖ χαὶ Πανδίας τὴν Σελήνης Μουσαῖον ἐν Άφήναις γενέσφαι,

Modern

Casford

p. 174

Pandia: Originally perhaps an epithet of the full Moon, and also the name of a festival celebrated on the day of the full moon.

Cook

p. 732

and Photios states that the Attic festival Pandia derived its name from Pandia the daughter of Selene or from Pandion the eponym of the tribe Pandionis, adding that it was held for Zeus.⁸ It seems probable that, as W. H. Roscher conjectured⁹, Pandia was originally an epithet of Selene rather than her daughter¹⁰; but that the festival Pandia was ab initio connected with this Selene Pandia is far from clear.

⁸ Phot. lex. s.v. Πάνδια. So et. mag. p. 651, 21f., Bekker anecd. i. 292, 10 f.

⁹ W. H, Roscher Über Selene und Verwandtes Leizig 1890 p. 100 and in his Lex. Myth. ii. 3172.

¹⁰ Ulpian ...

Cox

[In folder]

p. 138

... She [Selene] is he bride of Zeus and the mother of Pandia, the full orb which gleams in the nightly sky; ¹

¹ 'Pandia d. h. die gams leuchtends.' — Preller, Gr. Myth. i. 347.

p. 139

From this terrible bondage ... This rescue of Iô by Hermes is, in the opinion of Preller, the tem- [cont.]

p. 140

porary disappesrsnce of the moon, during her wanderings in unknown regions until she appears as Pandia, the full moon, in the eastern heaven.¹

¹ Gr. Myth. ii. 39.

Fairbanks

p. 162

Zeus himself fell in love with Selene, and she bore him a daughter, Pandia (All-brightness).

Grimal

s.v. Selene, p. 415

She had a daughter Pandia, by Zeus, ...

Hard

p. 46

There is an attractive literary account of her journey through the sky in the Homeric Hymn to Selene, which also reports that she once slept with Zeus and bore him a daughter Pandeia (an obscure figure whose name may have been derived from a title of Selene).¹⁴⁰

¹⁴⁰

Harpers

"Selene"

She was worshipped on the days of the new and full moon. She bore to Zeus a daughter, Pandia, worshipped at Athens with her father at the festival of Pandia (Demosth. Or. 21.9).

Kerenyi

p. 197.

... [by Zeus] a daughter named Pandia, "the entirely shining" or the "entirely bright"— doubtless the brightness of nights of full moon.

Littleton

p. 1277

A traditional myth in Athens recounted that Selene had a child by Zeus named Pandia. According to the genealogy of Athens, Pandia was the wife of Antiochus, a local hero who gave his name to one of the 10 Athenian tribes. Pandia was also the name of an Athenian festival held in honor of Pandia and her father Zeus.

Muller

p. 74

... and several [Homeric Hymns] refer to local worships, which are entirlely unknown to us, as the one to Selene, which celebrates her daughter by Zeus, the goddess Pandia, shining forth amongst the immortals; of whom we can now only conjecture that the Athenian festival of Pandia was dedicated to her.

Robertson

p. 75 note 109

¹⁰⁹ The festival name Pandia is sometimes thought to mean "Common festival of Zeus"—i.e. one celebrated jointly by several communities, which would provide a different analogy. But the true meaning is surely "Rites of the all-bright sky," referring to the first full moon of spring; by one account, the festival is named for Pandia, daughter of Selene.

Roscher

p. 100

e) Ehegatten der Selene. ... Pandia oder Pandeie eine der Selene wesensverwandte, aus einem iher Epitheta abgeleitete Tocher, von welcher nach einer Notiz des Etymol. Magn. s. v. Πανδεια auch das athenische Fest Pandeia den Namen haben soll (s. oben S. 9), also eine feminine Parallele zu ...

Smith

"Selene"

by Zeus she became the mother of Pandeia, Ersa, and Nemea (Hom. Hymn. 32. 14 ; Plut. Sympos. iii. in fin.; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. Hypoth. p. 425, ed. Böckh)

Tripp

s.v. Selene, p. 525

She bore a daughter, Pandia, to Zeus

Tsagalis

p. 53

West suggests an Attic venue on the basis of the reference to the Moon's daughter Pandie (32.15), who features in an Attic genealogy (Apollodorus FGrH 244 F 162 [Heinrichs 1975: 13n40]) as "the wife of Antiochus, the eponymous hero of the Antiochid phylē (20003b: 19).⁴⁶ Some ancient sources refer to the Attic festival of the Pandia, held during the month of Elaphebolion, immediatley after the City Dionysia (Photius π 137 [III 150 Theodoridis]; EM 651.21-24 [Gaisford]; Poll. I, 37).⁴⁷ This festival of Zeus would have been a good place to perform the Hymn to the Moon, with its reference to Pandia's father, Zeus (312.14).

p. 72

⁴⁶ Others have suggested an association with the Pandionid phylē through [cont.]

p. 73

Pandion: K. Müller 1875 (1841): 123; Hermann 1846: §59, 5; Deubner 1969: 176-177 (on the basis of Demosthenes 21.8); Parke 1977: 136.

⁴⁷ See also the designation of the Moon as πανδια (Allen, Halliday, and Sikes 1936: 435).

West

p. 19

Hymns 31 and 32, to the Sun and Moon, are a matching pair and clearly the work of one poet. They must be among the latest poems in the collection. There is a clue to their origin in the reference to a daughter of the Moon called Pandia (32.15), for this obscure figure featured in an Attic genealogy: she was the wife of Antiochos, the eponymous hero of the Antiochid phylē.²⁰

²⁰ Apollodorus, FGrHist 244 F162 as corrected by Albert Henrichs, Cronache Ercolanesi 5 (1975), 13 n. 40.

• Bernabé, p. 10: "Schol. Eur. Rhes. 916 (= Apollodor. FGrHist 244 F 162)"]
• Schol. Eur. Rhesus 916: p. 116

Willetts

pp. 178-179

The Attic festival of Pandia seems to have been celebrated at the time of the full moon.²⁴⁶ The festival was said to have derived its name either from Pandia, the daughter of Selene, or from Pandion, the eponym of the tribe Pandionis, being held in honor of Zeus.²⁴⁸ A not uncommon form of the sacred marriage is that between Zeus and Selene. This marriage, for example produced Nemea²⁴⁹ and also, in one tradition, Dionysos.²⁵⁰ The union produced an even more interesting offspring. For, in the seventh century B.C., Alkman refers to flowers and plants which are nourished by the dew—daughter of Zeus and Selene.²⁵¹ This reference must derive its origin from the traditions oh herbal magic, from the time when moon-worship and the tending of plants were the province of women.²⁵² Hence, as Roscher suggested,²⁵³ Pandia was probably an epithet belonging originally not to Selene's daughter, but to Selene herself. It is the sacred marriage of Zeus with Selene that transfers the epithet to the offspring and may well have been responsible for a metamorphosis of that offspring from a female to a male—Pandia to Pandion."

²⁴⁶ Mommsen FSA 432 n. 4, 441; Gruppe 938 n. I.

²⁴⁷ Cook Z I.733.

²⁴⁸ Phot., EM s.v.

²⁴⁹ Sch. Pi N 425. Boeckh.

²⁵⁰ Ulp. in Mid. 174; cf. Cic. DND 3.58; Cook Z I.457 n. 5.

²⁵¹ Alcm. 48.

²⁵² P. 79.

²⁵³ SV 100; cf. id. LGRM 2.3172.