Menoetius

Family: Titans · Role: father of Patroclus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Menoetius)

Menoetius is a Titan and the father of Patroclus. In Apollodorus, Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt during the battle with the Titans and hurled him down to Tartarus: “Menoetius, he whom Zeus in the battle with the Titans smote with a thunderbolt and hurled down to Tartarus.”

Hesiod names Iapetus and Clymene as his parents, and describes him as the sibling of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; Apollodorus instead gives Iapetus and Asia as his parents and also calls him the son of Actor. Hesiod later says that Zeus struck Menoetius with lightning and sent him to Erebus because of his pride: “But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride.” Patroclus was born to Menoetius and Sthenele.

Relationship record

Life events

• Zeus struck Menoetius with a thunderbolt and hurled him down to Tartarus.(Apollodorus, Library 1.2 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Zeus
  • “Menoetius, he whom Zeus in the battle with the Titans smote with a thunderbolt and hurled down to Tartarus.”
• Iapetus married Clymene, who bore Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561)
  • With: Iapetus Clymene Atlas 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”
• Zeus struck Menoetius with lightning and banished him to Erebus for his pride.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561 · 📍 Erebus)
  • With: Zeus
  • “But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

• with Zeus (Zeus struck and banished Menoetius.) “Menoetius, he whom Zeus in the battle with the Titans smote with a thunderbolt and hurled down to Tartarus”
• parent: Iapetus “to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Menoetius”
• parent: Asia “to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Menoetius”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Actor “Menoetius, son of Actor”

Apollodorus, Library 3.13

• child: Patroclus “Patroclus, son of Menoetius and Sthenele”

Hesiod, Theogony 453-561

• parent: Clymene “also she bare very glorious Menoetius”
• 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”
• 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 Prometheus “also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”
• siblings with Epimetheus “also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus”

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