Iapetus
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Greek A first generation Titan; son
of Uranus and Gaia. Iapetus married Clymene, a
daughter of his brother Oceanus, and with her was
father of four brothers, second-generation Titans:
Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and a lesser known
son, Menoetius. The Greeks considered Iapetus the
primary ancestor of the human race since it was his
son, Prometheus, who was the primary supporter of
humans.
When the Olympian gods fought the Titans,
Zeus threw Iapetus down to Tartarus, a realm even
deeper down and farther away from the Earth than
was Hades, the realm of the dead. According to one
Greek poet, the gods put an island on top of Iapetus
to keep him from escaping.
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- Menoetius Greek A second-generation Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene, who was a daughter of Oceanus; brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
- Prometheus (Forethought) Greek One of the Titans, descended from the Earth Mother (Gaia) and the Sky Father (Uranus); son of Iapetus and one of the daughters of Oceanus, possibly Clymene; brother of Atlas and Epimetheus; father of Deucalion.
- Iapetus - Mythology.