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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

In his discussion of the difficulties raised by the names for individual continents, Herodotus says that many Greeks think that ASIA was named after the wife of PROMETHEUS, but the Lydians claim otherwise, citing their own ASIES son of COTYS son of MANES as the eponym (4.45.3).

Herodotus is alone among our surviving sources in this regard (Fowler 2013, 113–14). Asia appears in HESIOD’s Theogony (359) as one of the daughters of Oceanus. But our earliest clear evidence for Prometheus’ wife gives her name as Hesione (Acousilaus BNJ 2 F34; Aesch. PV 560). Asia appears later as the mother of Prometheus (Lycoph. Alex. 1283; Apollod. Bibl. 1.2.2–3) while Clymene is named as his wife (e.g., Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 1.17.3).

SEE ALSO: Boundaries; Geography; Lydia; Ocean