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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IAPETUS , in See also:

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

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

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

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