Menoetius (Titan)- Greek TitanTitan
Also known as: Μενοίτιος and Menoitios
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Description
A thunderbolt finds him on the field of the Titanomachy, Zeus answering his mad presumption and exceeding pride with a single stroke that hurls this son of Iapetus into the darkness of Erebus, never to return.
Mythology & Lore
The Thunderbolt and Erebus
Hesiod names four sons of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene in the Theogony: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. Each met a different fate at Zeus's hands. Atlas was set to hold the sky. Prometheus was chained to a crag with an eagle at his liver. Epimetheus accepted Pandora and the misery she carried. Menoetius got the simplest punishment and the least story.
Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt for his blind recklessness and overweening pride, and hurled him down into Erebus. Hesiod uses two words for what was wrong with him: atasthaliē, willful folly, and hybris, the arrogance that provokes divine violence. Of the four brothers, three survived to carry their burdens. Menoetius alone was erased, sent into the dark below the world with no chain, no task, no return. Apollodorus confirms the account: thunderstruck in the Titanomachy, cast into Tartarus.