Klymene (Nereid)

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Klymene ( Greek  Κλυμένη ) is a nereid in Greek mythology .

She is one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris . Their name appears in Nereidenkatalog in the Iliad of Homer but also in the catalog of the Roman mythographers, Hyginus . It is also called Virgil in the Georgica of the Roman poet . It is probably identical to that Clymene , which, according to Pausanias, had their own altar in Athens together with Diktys as the "savior of Perseus " .

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  1. Homer, Iliad 18:47.
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae , Praefatio.
  3. ^ Virgil, Georgica 4, 345.
  4. ^ Pausanias, Travels in Greece 2, 18, 2.
  5. ^ So Hans von Geisau : Klymene 2. In: Der Kleine Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 257.