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Clymene

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.
• 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.
• Grandaughter of Minos and mother of Palamedes by Nauplius.
• By Ares, mother of Diomedes

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104 Klymene is an asteroid.