Clymene - Mythology.
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Clymene - Mythology. Greek An Oceanid, or ocean nymph; one of the eldest daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and, as such, considered a secondgeneration Titan; married Iapetus and with him was the mother of still more Titans: Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. Clymene was also considered by some sources to be the mother of Phaeton and his weeping sisters, the Heliads, whose father was Helios, the Olympian god who drove the sun across the sky. Clymene was known as the goddess of both fame and infamy. In some sources, she is named Asia, and considered a goddess of the region Asia Minor, also known as Anatolia.
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