Asia (mythology)

Asia ( Greek  Ἀσία ) is a Oceanid of Greek mythology , a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys .

In the library of Apollodorus and with Aeschylus she is the wife of the titan Iapetus and mother of Prometheus , Atlas , Epimetheus and Menoitios . In Hesiod the Oceanid is as a mother Klymene called.

According to Herodotus , she is the wife of Prometheus. The continent of Asia is said to have been named after her.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Asia 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 609 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Asia in the Theoi Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hesiod , Theogony 358.
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 1,2,2,3; Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 347.
3. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 508.
4. ↑ Herodotus 4.45.