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Greek · deity · titanomachy · Recorded classification
Titan son of Iapetus condemned to bear the heavens at the world's edge.
Parentage
- parent: Iapetus
Children
Domains
- endurance of the sky
Powers
- Holds the broad sky upon his head and hands
- Knowledge of the depths of the whole sea and the heavens
Epithets
- ὀλοόφρων of baleful/crafty mindHomer, Odyssey 1.52 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: PrometheusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Iapetus) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Epimetheus
- sibling: Menoetius
- counterpart of: AtlasTradition-specific counterpart; this link does not transfer parentage.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface (primary)
Sources
- existence: Hesiod, Theogony 517-520 (primary)