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Asia (mythology)




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In Greek mythology, Asia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) was one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.




Contents





  • 1 Mythology


  • 2 See also


  • 3 Notes


  • 4 References




Mythology


According to Apollodorus, she was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius[1] although Hesiod gives the name of another Oceanid, Clymene, as their mother.[2]


It is possible that the name Asia became preferred over Hesiod's Clymene to avoid confusion with the Clymene who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts and must have been perceived as a distinct figure.[citation needed]Herodotus records the tradition that the continent Asia was named after Asia whom he calls wife of Prometheus rather than mother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition.[3]


Both Acusilaus and Aeschylus in his Prometheus Bound call Prometheus' wife Hesione.


Herodotus also relates a Lydian tradition "that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name".



See also


  • Asia's name etymology


Notes




  1. ^ Apollodorus, 1.2.3.


  2. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 507–511.


  3. ^

    Herodotus, 4.45.3.





References



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  • Herodotus; Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920;
    ISBN 0674991338. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.


  • 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.






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