Overview
Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure in Greek mythology who defied the gods; son of IapetusWikidata record description. Read Prometheus in the Wikipedia reader.
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As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
The family as a list · 20
Kinship in an account 18
- child of (child) Asia Oceanid of Greek mythology
- child of (child) Iapetos Titan in Greek mythology
- child of (child) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
- child of (child) 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
- parent of (child) Aetnaeus son of Prometheus one of the Cabiri in Greek mythology
- parent of (father) Aidos Greek goddess of shame
- parent of (child) Chimaereus son of Prometheus and brother of Lycus in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Deucalion son of Prometheus in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Hellen mythological progenitor of the Hellenes
- parent of (child) Lycus son of Prometheus and Celaeno in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Thebe daughter of Prometheus
- partner of (spouse) Axiothea wife of Prometheus in Greek mythology
- partner of (spouse) Celaeno one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology
- partner of (spouse) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
- partner of (spouse) Pronoia Oceanid nymph
- sibling of Atlas deity in Greek mythology
- sibling of Epimetheus mythological figure
- sibling of Menoetius Titan in Greek mythology
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