Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Asia

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（Ἀσία). A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, and Prometheus (Theog. 359). The name of the continent of Asia is traditionally derived from hers.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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