Iapetus
Generation IV · Mortal lifespan, the western pillar · The Titans
Titan of the west and, in later readings, of the piercing spear of mortality, the allotted span of human life. By the Oceanid Clymene he fathered a famous and fateful brood: Atlas who carries the sky, defiant Prometheus, scatterbrained Epimetheus, and violent Menoetius. Homer pictures him sitting beside Cronus in the sunless dark of Tartarus after the Titans' defeat.
One of 53 people of The Titans in this archive. Kronos and his kin, who ruled until their own children threw them down.
Line of descent: Chaos → Gaia → Uranus → Iapetus.
Parents
Siblings
- Aphrodite (half)
- Arges
- Briareus
- Brontes
- Ceto (half)
- Coeus
- Crius
- Cronus
- Eurybia (half)
- Hyperion
- Mnemosyne
- Nereus (half)
- Oceanus
- Phoebe
- Phorcys (half)
- Pontus (half)
- Rhea
- Steropes
- Tethys
- Thaumas (half)
- Theia
- Themis
- Typhon (half)
- Uranus (half)
Partners
- Married Clymene