Iapetus

Family: Titans · Role: Titan · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

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

Iapetus is a Titan born from Earth and Heaven among the first generation of Titans; Apollodorus likewise names Sky and Earth as his parents.

Afterward, Iapetus married Clymene, daughter of Ocean, who bore Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. Apollodorus instead records Asia as the mother of these children, naming Iapetus and Asia as their parents.

Relationship record

Life events

Earth and Heaven produce the first generation of Titans.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116)
- With: Earth Heaven Oceanus Coeus Crius Hyperion Theia Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe Tethys
- “But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”
Iapetus married Clymene, who bore Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561)
- With: Clymene Atlas Menoetius Prometheus Epimetheus
- “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”

Apollodorus, Library 1.1

parent: Sky “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”
parent: Earth “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

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

Hesiod, Theogony 1-116

parent: Heaven “But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus”

Hesiod, Theogony 453-561

married with Clymene “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed.”
child: Atlas “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”
child: Menoetius “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”
child: 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”
child: Epimetheus “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”

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