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Encyclopedia Britannica



IAPETUS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 215 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IAPETUS , in Greek mythology, son of Uranus and Gaea, one of the
Titans
 , father of
Atlas
 , Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius, the personifications of certain human qualities (
Hesiod
 , Tlzeog. 507). As a
punishment
  for having revolted against Zeus, he was imprisoned in Tartarus (
Homer
 , Iliad, viii. 479) or underneath the
island
  of Inarime off the
coast
  of Campania (Silius Italicus xii. 148). Hyginus makes him the son of Tartarus and Gaea, and one of the giants. Iapetus was considered the
original
  ancestor of the human race, as the father of Prometheus and grandfather of Deucalion. The name is probably identical with Japhet (
Japheth
 ), and the son of Noah in the Greek legend of the flood becomes the ancestor of (Noah) Deucalion. Iapetus as the representative of an obsolete order of things is described as warring against the new order under Zeus, and is naturally relegated to Tartarus.
See F. G. Welcker, Griechische GOtterlehre, i. (1857) ; C. H. Volcker, Die Mythologie des Iapetischen Geschlechtes (1824) ; M. Mayer, Giganten and Titanen (1887).


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