Pasithea

Goddess

In Greek mythology, Pasithea, Pasithee or Pasitheia (Ancient Greek: Πασιθέα) was one of the Charites and the wife of Hypnos. In the Dionysiaca, the epic poem of Nonnus (fifth century CE), she and the other Charites are the attendants of Aphrodite.

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Mentions in the Iliad

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“Deemest thou that Zeus, whose voice is borne afar, will aid the Trojans, even as he waxed wroth for the sake of Heracles, his own son? Nay, come, I will give thee one of the youthful Graces to wed to be called thy wife, even Pasithea, for whom thou ever longest all thy days.”