Asia (Greek myth)

For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Asia^[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) may refer to these deities:

• Asia, one of the 3,000 Oceanides, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.^[2]
• Asia, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3] She was counted in the train of Cyrene and may be the same to the above Asia.^[4]
• Asia, a surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from there by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las.^[5]