- This article is about the wife of Iapetus. For her sister with the same name and the mother of Phaethon, see Clymene (mother of Phaethon).
Clymene (Ancient Greek: Κλυμένη, Kluménē, feminine form of Κλύμενος, meaning "famous") is a Titaness in Greek mythology, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, thus making her an Oceanid. She was usually the wife of Iapetus and the goddess of renown, fame, and infamy.
In one ancient Greek vase painting she appears as a handmaiden of the goddess Hera. In the scene (right) she attends the Judgement of Paris and likely personified the gift of fame the goddess offered the prince.
Mythology[]
The only myths that state Clymene are related to her family. According to Hesiod in his Theogony, she was married to the Titan Iapetus, and they had four sons, Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus and Menoetius. Apollodorus however relates the same of her sister Asia. Some sources give us a less common genealogy that makes Clymene bore Deucalion, with Prometheus.
In Roman sources such as Hyginus in the preface of his Fabulae, She may also be the Clymene referred to as the mother of Mnemosyne by Jupiter. In Virgil's Georgics, Clymene was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.
Although she shares name and parentage with Clymene, one of Helios' lovers, who is also a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus one of her sisters and fellow Oceanid), she is distinguished from her.
Gallery[]
| Titans | |
|---|---|
| Parents | Ouranós • Gaîa |
| Elder Titans | Coeus • Crius • Cronus • Hyperion • Iapetus • Oceanus |
| Elder Titanesses | Phoebe • Mnemosyne • Rhea • Theia • Themis • Tethys |
| Coeonides | Asteria • Leto |
| Crionides | Astraeus • Pallas • Perses |
| Hyperionides | Eos • Hḗlios • Selene |
| Iapetonides | Atlas • Epimetheus • Menoetius • Prometheus |
| Oceanides | Oceanids (Clymene • Metis • Styx • Rhode) • Potamoi |
| Third Generation | Hecate • Astraea • Anemoi • Astra Planeta • Kratos • Nike • Bia • Zelus |
| Miscellaneous Titans | Dione • Anytos • Ophion • Eurynome (wife of Ophion) • Lelantos • Melisseus • Titan (brother of Helios) • Olymbros • Syceus • Titanic Muses |
| Topics | Overthrowing of Ouranós • Titanomachy |