Menoetius

Menoetius
Titan of Recklessness and Violence
General Information
Species	God
Biological sex	Male
Titles	God of Violence
Relationships
Parents	Iapetus and Clymene
Siblings	Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus
Enemies	Zeus
Languages
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Μενοίτιος or Μενοίτης

This article is about the Titan. For the Argonaut and father of Patroclus, see Menoetius (Argonaut).

Menoetius or Menoetes (Ancient Greek: Μενοίτιος or Μενοίτης) was the Greek Titan god of rashness and violent rage, who resided in Erebus.

This figure is only accounted for in two sources, Hesiod and Apollodorus, and a Scholia to Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound 347.

Etymology

The name means "doomed might" originating from the Ancient Greek words menos ("might, power") and oitos ("doom, pain").

Mythology

He was a second generation Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.

Menoetius was killed by Zeus on Mount Triphyle with a flash of lightning in the War of the Titans, and banished to Tartarus or Erebos.

Hesiod described Menoetius as hubristic or outrageous, meaning exceedingly prideful and impetuous to the very end. From what his name suggests, along with Hesiod's own account, Menoetius was perhaps the Titan god of violent anger and rash action.

Sources

Hesiod's Theogony:

“	Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Oceanus, and went up with her into one bed. And she bore him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bore very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed. But Menoetius was outrageous, and farseeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride.	”
–Hesiod, Theogony

Apollodorus' Library:

“	to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Menoetius, he whom Zeus in the battle with the Titans smote with a thunderbolt and hurled down to Tartarus.	”
–Apollodorus, Library