Menoetius (son of Iapetus)

Also known as: Menoetius · Family: Titans · Role: Titan · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

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 (daughter of Ocean) 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.”

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”

parent: Clymene (daughter of Ocean) “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”
with Zeus (interaction) “But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus”
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”

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