Iapetus - Mythology.
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Iapetus - Mythology. 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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