Iapetus

Family: Titans · Role: father of Prometheus · First appears: Fable 2

Fable 2

• child: Prometheus (Prometheus is identified in the preceding account as the son of Iapetus.) “or whether the Earth, being newly made, and but lately divided from the lofty æther, still retained some atoms of its kindred heaven, which, tempered with the waters of the stream, the son of Iapetus fashioned after the image of the Gods, who rule over all things.”

Fable 9

• child: Prometheus “Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”
• child: Epimetheus “Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”

Fable 10

• younger kin: Pyrrha “Pyrrha was of the race of the Titans; for Iapetus, her grandfather, was the son of Titan and Terra.”
• parent: Titan “Iapetus, her grandfather, was the son of Titan and Terra.”
• parent: Terra “Iapetus, her grandfather, was the son of Titan and Terra.”
• with Pyrrha (Iapetus is explicitly identified as Pyrrha's grandfather.) “Pyrrha was of the race of the Titans; for Iapetus, her grandfather, was the son of Titan and Terra.”

Fable 46

• child: Atlas “Here was Atlas, the son of Iapetus, surpassing all men in the vastness of his body.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.