Menoetius

Overview

Menoetius is a son of Iapetus and Clymene. Hesiod connects Zeus’s thunderbolt with his outrageous presumption and excessive pride and sends him to Erebus; Pseudo-Apollodorus explicitly places the strike in the battle with the Titans. The two accounts share the thunderbolt and fall but give the event different narrative settings.

Key facts

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Relationships

• Iapetusfather of

  Iapetus is father of Menoetius.

• Zeusstrikes down with thunderbolt

  Zeus strikes Menoetius down with a thunderbolt in differently framed accounts.

Story appearances

• The TitanomachySon of Iapetus whose thunderbolt strike is framed by hubris in Hesiod and by the Titan battle in Pseudo-Apollodorus.

  Son of Iapetus whose thunderbolt strike is framed by hubris in Hesiod and by the Titan battle in Pseudo-Apollodorus.

Ancient sources

MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.

• Hesiod, Theogony, Lines 507–520: Iapetus' children, Menoetius struck by thunderbolt and Atlas bearing heaven
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1.2.3–5: Menoetius struck during the war with the Titans and Styx with her children fighting for Zeus