Deity Uranids
Iapetos
Ἰαπετός grc Iapetus la
Titan in Greek mythology
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Iapetos
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 16
Kinship in an account 16
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Gaia Greek primordial deity, the personification of the Earth -
child of (child) Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities - parent of (father) Anchiale daughter of the Titan Iapetus
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parent of (father) Atlas deity in Greek mythology -
parent of (father) Epimetheus mythological figure -
parent of (child) Hesperus personification of the planet Venus or its manifestation in the evening - parent of (father) Menoetius Titan in Greek mythology
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parent of (father) Prometheus Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure in Greek mythology who defied the gods; son of Iapetus - partner of (spouse) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
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sibling of Cronus ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology -
sibling of Hyperion Titan in Greek mythology -
sibling of Oceanus ancient Greek god of the earth-encircling river, Oceanos -
sibling of Rhea female Titan in Greek mythology, mother of Zeus and mother of Hera -
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sibling of Tethys ancient Greek mythological figure; mother of the river gods and the Oceanids -
sibling of Theia female Titan in Greek mythology; mother of Helios, Selene and Eos -
sibling of Themis in ancient Greek mythology, a titaness, the personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom, whose symbols are the scales of justice
Connections
How Iapetos connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
17 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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