Iapetus
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Theogony
Titan son of Earth and Heaven who weds the Oceanid Clymene and fathers Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed.
After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.
Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …
Ad Nationes
Figure named alongside Saturn and Titan in the Sibyl's verse.
"In the tenth generation of men," she says, "from when the cataclysm befell the former ones, there reigned Saturn and Titan and Iapetus, the mightiest sons of Earth and Heaven.