Clymene

Role: mother of Homer · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18

In Book 2, Chapter 18, Clymene is named with Dictys as one of the “Saviours of Perseus.” In Book 10, Chapter 24, the inhabitants of Ios show her tomb and say she was Homer’s mother.

Book 10, Chapter 29, represents Clymene in The Return from Ilium as the daughter of Minyas and the wife of Cephalus, son of Deion; she was mother by Cephalus of Iphiclus.

Relationship record

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• with Perseus (Clymene is called one of the saviours of Perseus.) “in it an altar to Dictys and Clymene, who are called the Saviours of Perseus”

Book 10 · Chapter 24

• child: Homer “The inhabitants of Ios still shew the tomb of Homer, and in another part of the island the tomb of Clymene, who they say was Homer’s mother.”

Book 10 · Chapter 29

• parent: Minyas “Clymene, who is represented in The Return from Ilium to have been the daughter of Minyas”
• married with Cephalus “the wife of Cephalus the son of Deion”
• child: Iphiclus “mother by him of Iphiclus”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.