It is possible that the nameAsia became preferred over Hesiod'sClymene to avoid confusion with theClymene who was mother ofPhaethon byHelios in some accounts and must have been perceived as a distinct figure.[citation needed]Herodotus recorded the tradition that the continentAsia was named after Asia whom he calledwife of Prometheus rather thanmother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition.[8] BothAcusilaus andAeschylus in hisPrometheus Bound called Prometheus' wifeHesione.
Herodotus also related a Lydian tradition "that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son ofManes, and that from him the Asiad clan atSardis also takes its name".
^Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as inHesiod,Theogony371–374, in theHomeric Hymn to Hermes (4),99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.
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