IAPETUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, son of See also:

• URANUS
• URANUS (Heaven)

Uranus and Gaea, one of the See also:

• TITANS (Gr. Ttraaves)

Titans, See also:

• FATHER

father of See also:

• ATLAS

Atlas, See also:

• PROMETHEUS

Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius, the personifications of certain human qualities (See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod, Tlzeog . 507) . As a See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment for having revolted against See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus, he was imprisoned in See also:

• TARTARUS

Tartarus (See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, Iliad, viii . 479) or underneath the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Inarime off the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• CAMPANIA

Campania (Silius Italicus xii . 148) . See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus makes him the son of Tartarus and Gaea, and one of the giants . Iapetus was considered the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original ancestor of the human See also:

• RACE

race, as the father of Prometheus and grandfather of See also:

• DEUCALION

Deucalion . The name is probably identical with Japhet (See also:

• JAPHETH (np.:)

Japheth), and the son of See also:

• NOAH (ni, rest; Septuagint, New Testament, Philo, Josephus, Na*, N&i os, Nweos: Vulg. Noe)

Noah in the Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of the See also:

• FLOOD (in O. Eng. flod, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in " flow," " float ")
• FLOOD, HENRY (1732-1791)

flood becomes the ancestor of (Noah) Deucalion . Iapetus as the representative of an obsolete See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of things is described as warring against the new order under Zeus, and is naturally relegated to Tartarus . See F . G . See also:

• WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

Welcker, Griechische GOtterlehre, i .

(1857) ; C . H . Volcker, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Mythologie See also:

• DES

des Iapetischen Geschlechtes (1824) ; M . See also:

• MAYER, JOHANN TOBIAS (1723-1762)
• MAYER, JULIUS ROBERT (1814-1878)

Mayer, Giganten and Titanen (1887) .