ASIA


Meaning of ASIA in English

[Greek] A Greek sea-nymph and the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. The continent of Asia was named after her. Asia was occasionally regarded as the wife of Iapetus but according to other she was the wife of Prometheus (Herodotus IV, 45).

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