Iapetus

deity earth Greek single tradition · 7

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1393 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 7 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Referenced by Hesiod and Apollodorus.

Relationships

consort of
Asia, Clymene
allied with
Olympians
child of
Gaia, Uranus, Gaea

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Sources

Source passages

“According to Apollodorus, Asia was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius although Hesiod gave the name of another Oceanid, Clymene, as their mother.”

#27739 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”

#28378 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“his brother Iapetus, as Bob, tricks him into expressing doubts about serving their mother Gaea, and Krios and Hyperion are destroyed by Tartarus.”

#40075 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“For example, Hyginus includes the names of three Titans, Coeus, Iapetus, and Astraeus, along with Typhon and the Aloadae, in his list of Giants”

#42581 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Bouphagos, son of the Titan Iapetus, sees Artemis and thinks about raping her. Reading his sinful thoughts, Artemis strikes him down at Mount Pholoe.”

#43078 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat