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Asia (mythology)
Asia in ancient Greek religion was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius. Hesiod gives the name of another Oceanid, Clymene, in his Theogony (359) but the ''Bibliotheca'' (1.8) gives instead the name ''Asia'' as does Lycophron (1411). 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. Herodotus (4.45.1) 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. Both Acusilaus and Aeschylus in his ''Prometheus Bound'' call Prometheus' wife Hesione.
Herodotus relates also the Lydian tradition:〔Histories (Herodotus) (4.45.1 )〕 "yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter name, saying 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
==References==
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