Menoitius (son of Iapetus)
Menoitios ( ancient Greek Μενοίτιος Menoítios , German 'destroyed strength' , Latin Menoetius ) is in Greek mythology a son of the titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia and brother of Atlas , Prometheus and Epimetheus .
He was a glorious warrior, but he insulted Zeus and Zeus hurled lightning at him. According to other sources, he was merely crippled and banished to the Tartaros .
Perhaps he is identical to the Menoites or Menoitios, the shepherd of Hades on Erytheia , who notified Geryon when Heracles stole his flock.
swell
- Libraries of Apollodorus 1,2,3
- Hesiod Theogony 507-514
literature
- Konrad Seeliger: Menoitios 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2795-2798 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clymene in Hesiod