Pasithea

In Greek mythology, Pasithea or Pasithee (Πασιθέα) is

the eldest of the Graces. In some accounts she is a daughter of Zeus, in others the offspring of Hera and Dionysus. She was married to Hypnos, the god of sleep.

(Hom. Il. xiv. 268, 276; Paus. ix. 35. § 1.)

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a daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hes. Theog. 247.)

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a Naiad, the wife of Erichthonius and mother of Pandion. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 6; comp. iii. 15. § 1, where she is called Praxithea.)





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