Iapetus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Gaia(parent),Uranus(parent),Coeus(sibling),Crius(sibling),Hyperion(sibling),Kronos(sibling),Mnemosyne(sibling),Oceanus(sibling),Phoebe(sibling),Rhea(sibling),Tethys(sibling),Theia(sibling),Themis(sibling)— Consort

  Gaia and Uranus produced the twelve elder Titans — Kronos, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Theia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe — who ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age before the Olympians overthrew them.

• Clymene(spouse),Atlas(child),Epimetheus(child),Menoetius (Titan)(child),Prometheus(child)— Consort

  Iapetus and Clymene fathered four sons — Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius Titan — each punished differently by Zeus after the Titanomachy. Atlas bears the sky, Prometheus is chained to a rock, Menoetius Titan was cast into Erebus, and Epimetheus loosed suffering on mankind by accepting Pandora.

  ⚠ Hesiod (Theogony 507) names the Oceanid Clymene as their mother; Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 1.2.3) names the Oceanid Asia instead.

Member of

• Titans

  The elder gods who ruled during the Golden Age before being overthrown by the Olympians, including the twelve first-generation Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia and second-generation members Pallas and Perses.

Associated with

• Mount Othrys

  Iapetus was among the Titans who fought from Mount Othrys during the Titanomachy. After the Titans' defeat, he was cast into Tartarus along with his brothers.

• Tartarus

  After the Titans' defeat in the Titanomachy, Zeus imprisoned Iapetus in Tartarus along with his brothers Kronos, Crius, Coeus, and Hyperion, guarded behind bronze gates by the Hundred-Handed Ones.

• Uranus

  Iapetus was one of the twelve Titans born to Uranus and Gaia. He fathered Prometheus, Atlas, and Epimetheus — the generation that bridged Titan and Olympian rule.