Klymene (Oceanid)

Klymene ( ancient Greek Κλυμένη , Latin Clymene ) is an Oceanid of Greek mythology , a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys . Sometimes she is equated with Asia .

With the titan Iapetus she is the mother of Prometheus , Atlas , Epimetheus and Menoitios . According to another version, she is said to be the wife of Prometheus.

She was married to Merops , with whom she raised her children Phaeton and the Heliaden , whose father was the god Helios . She is also sometimes referred to as Merope (and Phaeton's father in this context as Clymenus).

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Klymene 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1227 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Klymene in the Theoi Project (English)
• Clymene in Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hesiod , Theogony 358.
2. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 508.
3. ↑ Scholien zu Pindars Olympien 9, 68; 9, 72; 9, 79.
4. ^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 2, 184.
5. ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae Praefatio 38; 152 A; 156; 250; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1, 256.
6. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphosen 2, 340; Pausanias 1, 4, 1.
7. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fables 154.