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IAPETUS  , in

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

(1857) ; C . H . Volcker,

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Die Mythologie
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des Iapetischen Geschlechtes (1824) ; M .
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Mayer, Giganten and Titanen (1887) .

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