Clymene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Clymene or Klymene (Ancient Greek: Κλυμένη) may refer to:
*Clymene, an Oceanid,Hesiod, Theogony, 351 wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius;Hesiod, Theogony, 508; Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface other authors relate the same of her sister Asia.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 2. 3 A less common genealogy makes Clymene the mother of Deucalion by Prometheus.Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 9. 81; on Odyssey, 10. 2Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1. 17. 3 The Oceanid Clymene is also given as the wife to King Merops of Ethiopia and, by Helios, mother of Phaëton and the Heliades.Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4. 204Servius on Aeneid, 10. Strabo, Geography, 1. 2. 27, citing Euripides
*Clymene, a Nereid.Homer, Iliad, 18. 47Hyginus, Fabulae, PrefaceVirgil, Georgics, 4. 345
*Clymene, an Amazon.Hyginus, Fabulae, 163
*Clymene, an "ox-eyed" servant of Helen.Homer, Iliad, 3. 144 She was a daughter of AethraDictys Cretensis, 5. 13 by Hippalces,Scholia on Iliad, 3. 144 thus half-sister to Theseus and a distant relative to Menelaus.Dictys Cretensis, 1. 5. Atreus, the father of Menelaus, and Pittheus, the father of Aethra, were brothers. She and her mother were taken by Helen to Troy as handmaidens, and were released by Acamas and Demophon after the fall of Troy.Dictys Cretensis, 6. 2
*Clymene, daughter of Catreus. She and her sister Aerope were given to Nauplius to be sold away, as Catreus feared the possibility of being killed by one of his children. Nauplius took Clymene to wife, and by him she became mother of Palamedes, Oeax and Nausimedon.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 2. 2; Epitome of Book 4, 6. 8; also 2. 1. 5 for Nausimedon
*Clymene, daughter of Minyas, wife of either CephalusPausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 29. 6 or Phylacus,Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 45; on Odyssey, 11. 326 and mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede.Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 45 - 47 & 233 Some sources call her PericlymeneHyginus, Fabulae, 14 or Eteoclymene,Stesichorus, fragment 45 while according to others, Periclymene and Eteoclymene were the names of her sisters.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 230 Alternately, this Clymene was the wife of Iasus and mother by him of Atalanta.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 2
*Clymene, wife of Merops of Miletus, and mother of Pandareus.
*Clymene, possible mother of Myrtilus by Hermes.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 752
*Clymene, a nymph, mother of Tlesimenes by Parthenopaeus.Hyginus, Fabulae, 71
*Clymene, one of the Trojan women taken captive at the end of the Trojan War.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 26 1 with reference to Stesichorus, The Sack of Troy She might or might not be the same as the servant of Helen mentioned above.
*Clymene and Dictys were honored in Athens as the saviors of Perseus and had an altar dedicated to them.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 18. 1
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