Clymene

Family: Divine · Role: nymph · First appears: Fable 17

Life events

Clymene confirms that Phœbus is Phaëton’s father and directs him to seek proof from him.(Fable17)
- With: Phaëton Apollo
- “Son, I swear to thee, by this beam, bright with shining rays, which both hears and sees us, that thou, that thou, {I say}, wast begotten by this Sun, which thou beholdest;”
Apollo confirms Phaëton’s true origin, ending his uncertainty about his parentage.(Fable18 · 📍 Palace of Apollo)
- With: Apollo Phaëton
- “and Clymene has told thee thy true origin”
Clymene finds Phaëton’s buried bones on a foreign bank and mourns over his name.(Fable20)
- “And first seeking his lifeless limbs, {and} then his bones, she found his bones, however, buried on a foreign bank.”
Phaëton’s sisters gradually transform into trees as bark and roots envelop their bodies.(Fable20)
- With: Lampetie Phaëthusa Phœbe (Hesperian Naiad)
- “And while they are wondering at these things, bark closes upon their loins; and by degrees, it encompasses their stomachs, their breasts, their shoulders, and their hands;”
The transformed sisters’ tears harden into amber and are carried away by the river.(Fable20)
- With: Lampetie Phaëthusa Phœbe (Hesperian Naiad)
- “Thence tears flow forth; and amber distilling from the new-formed branches, hardens in the sun; which the clear river receives and sends to be worn by the Latian matrons.”

child: Phaëton “Phaëton blushed, and in shame repressed his resentment; and he reported to his mother, Clymene,[114] the reproaches of Epaphus;”
married with Merops (The footnote explicitly states that Merops married Clymene.) “He was king of Ethiopia, and marrying the Nymph Clymene, was either the stepfather of Phaëton, or, as some writers say, his putative father.”

child: Phaëton “Soon as the son of Clymene had arrived thither by an ascending path, and entered the house of his parent, {thus} doubted of;”