Asia (Oceanid)

Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys — in Apollodorus wife of Iapetus and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius (Hesiod gives that role to Clymene).

Prometheus Unbound

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley's lyrical drama gives Asia a speaking role as Prometheus' beloved — the Oceanid rewritten as Romantic spirit of love and liberation.

Asia

The continent's English name traces, in classical aetiology, to this Oceanid (or to Assuwa/Anatolia) — the nymph as geographic namesake.

Iapetus

Asia's consort in Apollodorus — the Titan through whom she mothers the fire-bringer and the sky-bearer.