Asia (mythology)
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'''Asia''' or '''Clymene''' in [[Greek mythology]] was a daughter of [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]], the wife of the [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Iapetus (mythology)|Iapetus]], and mother of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], [[Prometheus]], [[Epimetheus (mythology)|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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