The daughters of Zeus and Selene 🌙⚡️
1) Pandia
We first find her in the Homeric Hymn to Selene:
“The son of Cronus lay with her, and then
She bore Pandeia, in the company
Of gods the fairest. Bright divinity,
Mild, white-armed, bright-tressed queen, Selene, hail.”
And in the 2nd century A.D, she appears for a second and final time in Hyginus’ Fabulae:
“From Jove and Ceres, Proserpina. From Jove and Moneta, the Muses. From Jove and Luna, Pandia.”
2) Ersa
Found in Plutarch’s Moralia quoting Alcman:
“We observe this happening to the air also: it sheds dew especially at the full moon when it melts, as the lyric poet Alcman says somewhere when he talks in riddling fashion of the dew as daughter of air and moon: ‘such things as are nurtured by Dew [Ersa], daughter of Zeus and Selene.’”
3) Nemea
Found only in the scholia to Pindar’s Nemean Odes:
The relevant bit goes:
“But the Argives instituted the games in this manner, and the Nemean Games took from the Argive land their ‘fated lot’, being named from Nemea as the daughter of Selene and Zeus; while the altar was made from the bones of oxen sacrificed by Herakles in the village, when he sacrificed to Zeus Nemeios there.” (translated with an app)
There’s also a vase where we can see Zeus interacting with Nemea
Though without further information, we don’t know whether the painter and the observers of this piece considered this Nemea to be the daughter of Zeus and Selene, or whether they had some other idea in mind.
