Clymene
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In Greek mythology, Clymene or Klymenê ("famous might") is the name of at least six possibly distinct females.
- An Oceanid also called Asia, the wife of Iapetus. Mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius.
- An Oceanid, mother of Phaethon by Helios, sometimes as a full wife and mother also of the Heliades (essentially equated with Rhode) and sometimes as wife of Merops with whom Helios secretly lay.
- Mother of Deucalion by Prometheus. Possibly one of the above two (parent-child couplings occasionally occur among the earliest deities in Greek myth).
- Wife of Merops and Queen of Ethiopia, mother of Pandareus, possibly the same as the previous.
- Mother of Atalanta and wife of Schoeneus or Iasus.
- Daughter of Catreus and mother of Palamedes by Nauplius.
- By Ares, mother of Diomedes
104 Klymene is an asteroid.
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