Everything about Asia Mythology totally explained
Asia or
Clymene in
Greek mythology was a daughter of
Oceanus and
Tethys, the wife of the
Titan Iapetus, and mother of
Atlas,
Prometheus,
Epimetheus and
Menoetius.
Hesiod gives the name as Clymene in his
Theogony (359) but
Apollodorus (1.8) gives instead the name
Asia as does
Lycophron (1411). It is possible that the name
Asia became preferred over Hesiod's
Clymene to avoid confusion with what must be a different
Oceanid named Clymene who was mother of
Phaethon by
Helios in some accounts.
Herodotus (4.45.1) records the tradition that the continent
Asia was named after Asia whom he calls
wife of Prometheus rather than
mother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition. Both
Acusilaus and
Aeschylus in his
Prometheus Bound call Prometheus' wife
Hesione.
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