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, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia ( grc-gre, Πανδία, Πανδεία, meaning "all brightness") was a daughter of

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and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon. From the ''

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to Selene'', we have: "Once the Son of Cronos

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was joined with her elenein love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods." An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of

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, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes ( ''phylai''). Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least the time of the late ''Homeric Hymn'', Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival called the Pandia (probably held for

) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.Robertson
p. 75 note 109
Willets, pp
178–179
Cook
732
Harpers
"Selene"
Smith
"Pandia"
''Lexica Segueriana'' s.v. Πάνδια ( Bekker
p. 292
;

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, ''Lexicon'' s.v. Πάνδια.

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Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. * ''Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)'', in ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White'', Cambridge, Massachusetts.,

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