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In Greek mythology Iapetus, or Iapetos, was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus and Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.

Iapetus is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (8.478–81) as being in Tartarus with Cronus.

Iapetus' wife is normally a daughter of OceanusOceanos Oceanos was the name of a Greek cruise ship that sank off of the coast of South Africa in 1991. No lives were lost, but the Captain and crew left before many of the passengers. Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans re and TethysIn Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. named Clymene or Asia.

But in AeschylusThis article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation Aeschylus ( 525— 456 BC; Greek: iota;υ&omicron was a playwright of ancient Greece. Born in Eleusis, a district of the Athenian state, he wrote his fi's play Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is son of the goddess ThemisIn Greek mythology, among the six brothers and six sisters of whom Cronos made one, Hesiod mentions Themis among the children of Gaia with Ouranos, Earth with Sky. Among these Titans of primordial myth, few were venerated at specific sanctuaries in classi with no father named (but still with at least Atlas as a brother).

Since mostly the Titans indulge in marriage of brother and sister, it might be that Aeschylus is using an old tradition in which Themis is Iapetus' wife but that the Hesiodic tradition preferred that Themis and MnemosyneMnemosyne (Greek Mνημοσυνη, pronounced: mnay-moh su nay in 4 syllables, and not to rhyme with sign) (sometimes shortened to Mneme was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. This titaness was the daughter o be consorts of ZeusZeus Kronios (descendant of Cronus), or simply Zeus or Zdeus ( Greek ) or Dias (Greek ) ("divine king") is the leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Etymology Zeus is the continuation of Dyeus, the supreme god in Indo-Europ alone. But it would be been quite within Achaean practice for Zeus to have taken the wives of the Titans as his mistresses after throwing down their husbands.

Pausanias (8.27.15) writes:

As I have already related, the boundary between Megalopolis and Heraea is at the source of the river Buphagus. The river got its name, they say, from a hero called Buphagus, the son of Iapetus and Thornax. This is what they call her in Laconia also. They also say that Artemis shot Buphagus on Mount Pholoe because he attempted an unholy sin against her godhead.

Buphagus is a tributary of the river Alpheus, Thornax is a mountain between Sparta and Sellasia, and Pholoe is a mountain between Arcadia and Elis.

Anchiale, daughter of Iapetus, founded Anchiale (a city near Tarsus): her son was Cydnus, who gave his name to the river at Tarsus: the son of Cydnus was Parthenius, from whom the city was called Parthenia: afterwards the name was changed to Tarsus.

This may be the same Anchiale who appears in the Argonautica (1.1120f):

And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the Mother of Dindymum, Most Venerable, Dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean Mother, – the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

A connection between Greek Iapetos (of unknown meaning) and Hebrew Japhet (also of unknown meaning) is possible: that is a single ancestral figure may lie behind both.

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