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Iapetus (mythology)

In Greek mythology Iapetus was a Titan, the son of Uranus, by the nymph Clymene the father of Prometheus, Atlas, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and an ancestor of the human species. His wife was occasionally considered to be Asia or Asopis[?].

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