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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Herodotus mentions Asies in his discussion of the difficulties raised by the names for individual continents. While many Greeks think that ASIA was named after the wife of PROMETHEUS, the Lydians claim otherwise, citing Asies son of COTYS son of MANES, from whom the tribe called Asias in SARDIS received its name (4.45.3). That tribe is attested at Sardis in a Roman‐era inscription (SEG 19‐714; Pedley 1972, 8). The name “Asia” may derive ultimately from Hittite Assuwa, which referred to a region of western Anatolia (Bryce 2009, 83; Talamo 1979, 99–107).

SEE ALSO: Asia, wife of Prometheus; Geography; Lydia