Epimetheus

Family: Titans · Role: Titan · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Epimetheus)

Life events

Iapetus married Clymene, who bore Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561)
- With: Iapetus Clymene Atlas Menoetius Prometheus
- “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”

parent: Iapetus “to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus”
parent: Asia “to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus”

child: Pyrrha “married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, the first woman fashioned by the gods.”

parent: Clymene “and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
parent: Iapetus “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
siblings with Atlas “And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
siblings with Menoetius “also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
siblings with Prometheus “clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
with Zeus (Epimetheus accepted the woman formed by Zeus.) “for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.