Asia 
Asia's father is Oceanus and her mother is Tethys. Her paternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"); her maternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"). She has sixteen brothers and sixteen sisters, named Crinisus, Simoeis, Peneius, Cephissus, Achelous, Neilos, Asopus, Xanthus, Inachos, Inachus, Phorcus, Nilus, Ladon, Strymon, Uchoreus, Xanthus, Eurynome, Amphitrite, Merope, Clymene, Metis, Pero, Perse, Daeira, Dione, Argeia, Doris, Aethra, Callirhoe, Melia, Meliboea and the Oceanide. She has a half-brother and two half-sisters, named Triptolemus, Creusa and Philyra.General Notes
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ASIA, one of the Oceanides, was called by some the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius by Iapetus. Most sources call the wife of Iapetus CLYMENE. According to some, she gave her name to the continent of Asia. [Hesiod, Theogony 359; Apollodorus 1.2.2; Herodotus 4.45.]
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