Ιαπετος

One of the Titans, the son of Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the earth) (Table 5). He therefore belonged to the first generation of divinities and was one of the elder brothers of Cronus. According to Hesiod he married Clymene, one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, by whom he had four children, Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. Through Prometheus, Deucalion, father of mankind, was connected with him (Table 38) after the worldwide flood. Other legends say that his wife was Asia, another of the daughters of Oceanus; others maintained that his wife was Asopis, a daughter of Asopus and granddaughter of Oceanus or even Libya. Together with the other Titans he was thrown down into Tartarus by Zeus.

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