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[3] 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.1


1 As to the offspring of Iapetus and Asia, see Hes. Th. 507-520ff.

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