Pandia- Greek GodDeity
Also known as: Πανδεία and Pandeia
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Description
The Homeric Hymn to Selene names her at the very end: a daughter of Zeus and the moon goddess, "exceedingly lovely among the immortals." That is nearly all that survives of Pandia, except that the Athenians kept a festival in her name.
Mythology & Lore
The Hymn and the Festival
The Homeric Hymn to Selene closes with Pandia. After praising the moon goddess and her radiance, the poet says Selene lay with Zeus and bore a daughter "exceedingly lovely among the immortals." The hymn ends there. No story follows. Pandia receives no myth of her own, only a parentage and a single adjective.
But the Athenians gave her a festival. The Pandia was celebrated each year after the City Dionysia, and Demosthenes mentions it in Against Meidias as a public occasion of enough importance that misconduct during it warranted prosecution. What rites were performed and what the Athenians asked of Pandia, no source records.