Clymene (wife of Iapetus)
| Clymene | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Oceanids | |
| Other names | Asia |
| Abode | Ocean |
| Personal information | |
| Parents | Oceanus and Tethys |
| Siblings | the Oceanids, the Potamoi |
| Consort | Iapetus |
| Children | Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Menoetius |
| Greek deities series |
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| Nymphs |
In
Oceanid nymphs, usually the wife of Iapetus and mother by him of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius
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Mythology
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 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
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See also
Notes
- ISBN 9780307774439.
- ISBN 9781563088155.
- ^ Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Κλύμενος
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 351
- Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
- ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 508; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.68
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.2.3
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.17.3; Scholia on Pindar, 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.
- , another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
- Cleito.
- ^ In Aeschylus, 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.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0870232053.
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Google Books.