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Klymene (also spelt as Clymene) is a popular female name in the Greek Pantheon, being given to several goddesses such as:

Klymene- An elder Oceanid and the Goddess of fame, renown and glory. She was married to her uncle, Iapetus, the Titan God of Mortality, with whom she had Atlas, the Titan God of strength and endurance, Prometheus, the God of forethought and crafty counsel, Epimetheus, God of afterthought and Menoetius, God of violent anger and rash action. This Klymene is also called Asia, and under this name is also The Goddess of Anatolia. She is sometimes portrayed as a handmaiden of Hera.

Klymene- Another Oceanid Nymph. She is best known for being a consort of Helios, the sun god, with whom she had The Heliades, Phaethon and sometimes Astris, all of whom are minor deities. One account says that she and Helios made a love marriage, blessed by Oceanus and never divorced. In other sources she later divorced from Helios and remarried to a mortal, King Merops of Ethiopia, bringing with her, her children.

Clymene- A Nereid (sea nymph), she and her sisters came to Thetis when she was mourning the death of her son Achilles. In some accounts, there are two Nereids named Clymene.

Clymene- A nymph who is the mother of Tlesimenes by Parthenopaeus.

Klymene is also the name of several mortals in Greek Mythology too.

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