Clymene (wife of Iapetus)

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Clymene
Member of the Oceanids
Other names Asia
Abode Ocean
Consort Iapetus
Parents Oceanus and Tethys
Siblings the Oceanids, the Potamoi
Children Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Menoetius

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. In Greek mythology, Clymene or Klymene (/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.

Mythology

Clymene is the daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.[4][5][6] She married 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 mother of Deucalion by Prometheus.[9] She may also be the Clymene referred to as the mother of Mnemosyne by Zeus.[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

Clymene's family tree[13]
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Notes

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  3. Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Κλύμενος
  4. Hesiod, Theogony 351
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  7. Hesiod, Theogony 508; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.68
  8. Apollodorus, 1.2.3
  9. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.17.3; Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 9.81; on Homer, Odyssey 10.2
  10. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  11. Virgil, Georgics 4.345
  12. Hard Robin, pg. 44
  13. Hesiod, Theogony 132–138, 337–411, 453–520, 901–906, 915–920; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14.

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