Epimetheus

Family: Titans · Role: son of Iapetus · First appears: Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1

Life events

• Epimetheus accepted Zeus’s gift despite Prometheus’s warning.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1)
  • With: Prometheus
  • “And Epimetheus did not think on what Prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of Olympian Zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. But he took the gift”

Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1

• parent: Iapetus “to take it to Epimetheus as a gift.”

Also listed in Titans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.