![]() Hesiod and other Greek scholars regarded the sons of Iapetus as mankind's ancestors and as such, some of humanity's worst qualities were said to have been inherited from these four gods, each of whom were described with a particular moral fault that often led to their own downfall. brought fire to peoples by wicked deceit"). Ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit" ("The bold offspring of Iapetus. However, in Horace's Odes, in Ode 1.3 Horace writes "audax Iapeti genus. In Aeschylus's play Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is son of the goddess Themis with no father named (but still with at least Atlas as a brother). However, in Hesiod's Theogony, Clymene is listed as Iapetus' wife and the mother of Prometheus. In Hesiod's Works and Days Prometheus is addressed as "son of Iapetus", and no mother is named. Iapetus' wife is usually described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys named either Clymene (according to Hesiod and Hyginus) or Asia (according to Apollodorus). ![]() He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age but is now locked up in Tartarus along with Iapetus, where neither breeze nor light of the sun reaches them. Iapetus ("the Piercer") is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as being in Tartarus with Cronus. The practice by early historians and biblical scholars of identifying various historical nations and ethnic groups as descendants of Japheth, together with the similarity of their names, led to a fusion of their identities, from the early modern period to the present. Iapetus was linked to Japheth (יֶפֶת) one of the sons of Noah and a progenitor of mankind in biblical accounts. He was also called the father of Buphagus and Anchiale in other sources. ![]() In Greek mythology, Iapetus ( / aɪ ˈ æ p ɪ t ə s/ eye- AP-ih-təs Ancient Greek: Ἰαπετός, romanized: Iapetós), also Japetus, is a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Anchiale, Buphagus ![]()
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