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InGreek mythology, ClymeneorKlymene (/ˈklɪmɪn, ˈkl-/;[1][2] Ancient Greek: Κλυμένη, Kluménē, feminine form of Κλύμενος, meaning "famous"[3]) is the name of one of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs, usually the wife of Iapetus and mother by him of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius.

Clymene
Member of the Oceanids
Other namesAsia
AbodeOcean
Personal information
ParentsOceanus and Tethys
Siblingsthe Oceanids, the Potamoi
ConsortIapetus
ChildrenPrometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Menoetius

Mythology

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Clymene is the daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.[4][5][6] She married her uncle Iapetus and became by him the mother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius.[7] Other authors relate the same of her sister Asia.[8] A less common genealogy makes Clymene the wife of Prometheus and the mother of Deucalion by him.[9] She may also be the Clymene referred to as the mother of MnemosynebyZeus.[10] In some myths, Clymene was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.[11]

Although she shares name and parentage with Clymene, one of Helios's lovers, who is also a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus one of her sisters and fellow Oceanid), she is distinguished from her.[12]

Genealogy

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Clymene's family tree[13]
UranusGaiaPontus
OceanusTethysHyperionTheiaCriusEurybia
The RiversThe OceanidsHeliosSelene[14]EosAstraeusPallasPerses
CronusRheaCoeusPhoebe
HestiaHeraHadesZeusLetoAsteria
DemeterPoseidon
IapetusCLYMENE (or Asia)[15]Mnemosyne(Zeus)Themis
Atlas[16]MenoetiusPrometheus[17]EpimetheusThe MusesThe Horae

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Russell, William F. (1989). Classic myths to read aloud. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780307774439.
  • ^ Barchers, Suzanne I. (2001). From Atalanta to Zeus : readers theatre from Greek mythology. Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press. p. 192. ISBN 9781563088155.
  • ^ Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Κλύμενος
  • ^ Hesiod, Theogony 351
  • ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
  • ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 36, 87. ISBN 9780786471119.
  • ^ Hesiod, Theogony 508; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; ScholiastonPindar, Olympian Odes 9.68
  • ^ Apollodorus, 1.2.3
  • ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.17.3; ScholiaonPindar, Olympian Ode 9.81; on Homer, Odyssey 10.2
  • ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  • ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.345
  • ^ Hard Robin, pg. 44
  • ^ Hesiod, Theogony 132–138, 337–411, 453–520, 901–906, 915–920; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14.
  • ^ Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.
  • ^ According to Hesiod, Theogony 507–511, Clymene, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, while according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3, another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
  • ^ According to Plato, Critias, 113d–114a, Atlas was the son of Poseidon and the mortal Cleito.
  • ^ InAeschylus, Prometheus Bound 18, 211, 873 (Sommerstein, pp. 444–445 n. 2, 446–447 n. 24, 538–539 n. 113) Prometheus is made to be the son of Themis.
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