Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

732 Zeus paired with Selene {Pandta ?)

When Zeus appears in conjunction with the god Men, as in
a relief from Maionia (fig. 540)1, he is to be regarded as a solar
rather than a lunar deity2.

(b) Zeus paired with Selene {Pandia ?).

Again, Zeus was paired with Selene, the Greek moon-goddess,
as the father of Nemea3, while Dionysos, according to some
authorities, was an offspring of the same union4. As early as the
seventh century B.C. Alkman described certain flowers or plants.

Which the Dew, daughter 'of Zeus
And of Selana nurtureth5.

A late Homeric hymn to Selene tells how—

With her once Kronos' son in love lay locked,
And she conceiving bare the maid Pandeie
Of form conspicuous mid the immortal gods6.

Hyginus too records the same genealogy7; and Photios states
that the Attic festival Pandia derived its name either from
Pandia the daughter of Selene or from Pandion the eponym
of the tribe Pandionis, adding that it was held for Zeus8. 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.

Coins iii. 99 f. pi. 69, 18 f., Head Hist, num.2 p. 770. Fig. 538 is from a specimen in
the Fitzwilliam Museum, fig. 539 from one in my collection.

1 Supra p. 642 n. 2 and n. 4. 2 Supra p. 193 fig. 142.

3 Supra p. 456 n. 5. 4 Supra p. 457 n. 5.

5 Alkm. frag. 48 Bergk4 ola Atos dvydrijp \ 'epaa rpecpei teal HeXdvas [dias] ap. Plout.
symp. 3. to. 3, quaestt. not. 24, de fac. in orb. lun. 25, cp. Macrob. Sat. 7. 16. 31,
Natalis Comes mytholog. 3. 17 p. 131 ed. Patav. quidam tradiderunt Lunam fuisse
uxorem x\eris, e quo Rorem filium conceperit ac genuerit, ut ait Alcman melicus in
eo carmine : aypioarip 8p6aos av^ec fxtv /xrivrjs re Kai depos vios. Natalis appears to
be quoting, not Alkm. frag. 48, but a corrupt hexameter passage, which I would restore
as follows : #7pwariv | au£et fiiv Mrjvrjs re /ecu 'Aepos vios (glossed by dpoaos).

6 H. Set. 14 ff.

7 Hyg. fad. praef. p. 12, 9 Schmidt ex love et Luna Pandia (pandion cod. F, corr.
Schmidt).

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

9 W. H. Roscher Tiber Selene und Verzvandtes Leipzig 1890 p. 100 and in his Lex.
Myth. ii. 3172.

10 Ulpian in Dem. in Mid. 8 lldvdta 5e oi fxev Atos eoprrjp evbfj.icrav oi 8e llavdiav ttjp
*Le\7]vqv vofxi^QvaLv k.t.X., schol. Dem. in Mid. 8 Hdvdia Kai llduria, 7? *Lekrjvq, k.t.X.
Maximus Trepl Ka.Tapx&i' 22, 146, 208, 281 uses the expression iravdia l^eK-fjvri, ib. 463
iravbla 'LeX-qvai-q, and ib. 123, 294, 327, 393 even iravdia alone of the moon. Orph. fra^.
11, 8 Abel has iravbla 'ZeXtjvaii].