Clymene

Role: person · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Clymene)

In Apollodorus, Clymene is the daughter of Catreus and sister of Aerope, Apemosyne, and Althaemenes. Catreus gave her and Aerope to Nauplius to be sold abroad, after which “Clymene became the wife of Nauplius,” who fathered Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon by her.

Apollodorus also names a Clymene as the daughter of Minyas and mother of Atalanta by Iasus. In Hesiod, Clymene is instead the daughter of Ocean and wife of Iapetus, with whom she had Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Catreus gave Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius for sale in foreign lands.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Catreus Aerope Nauplius
  • “And Catreus gave Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius to sell into foreign lands;”
• Clymene married Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Nauplius Oeax Palamedes
  • “Clymene became the wife of Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.”
• Iapetus married Clymene, who bore Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561)
  • With: Iapetus Atlas Menoetius Prometheus Epimetheus
  • “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• married with Nauplius “according to the tragic poets, she was Clymene, daughter of Catreus”
• child: Palamedes “By her he had Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.”
• child: Oeax “By her he had Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.”
• child: Nausimedon “By her he had Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.”
• parent: Catreus “Clymene, daughter of Catreus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.2

• siblings with Aerope “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Apemosyne “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Althaemenes “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• married with Nauplius “And Clymene became the wife of Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.9

• child: Atalanta “And Iasus had a daughter Atalanta by Clymene, daughter of Minyas.”
• parent: Minyas “Clymene, daughter of Minyas”

Hesiod, Theogony 453-561

• parent: Ocean “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean”
• married with Iapetus “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed.”
• child: Atlas “And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas”
• child: Menoetius “also she bare very glorious Menoetius”
• child: Prometheus “also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles”
• child: Epimetheus “and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• child: Palamedes “Palamedes, the son of Nauplius and Clymene daughter of Catreus”

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